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Synonyms for ambit


Grammar : Noun
Spell : am-bit
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæm bɪt



Définition of ambit

Origin :
  • late 14c., "space surrounding a building or town; precinct;" 1590s, "a circuit," from Latin ambitus "a going round," past participle of ambire "to go round, to go about" (see ambient).
  • noun extent
Example sentences :
  • I saw for the first time an horizon as an arc suggesting how wide is our ambit.
  • Extract from : « The Sea and the Jungle » by H. M. Tomlinson
  • But he determined the key to the solution lay within that ambit.
  • Extract from : « If Winter Comes » by A.S.M. Hutchinson
  • The purpose was manifestly to make the ambit of review under the Act at least as wide as at common law.
  • Extract from : « Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster » by Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
  • Is there jurisdiction in the Courts to review in such a context as this taking into account the ambit of ss.
  • Extract from : « Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster » by Sir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
  • This simile to Nonconformity also holds good a little when we seek to ascertain the ambit of Richardson's popularity.
  • Extract from : « Res Judicat » by Augustine Birrell
  • Against this it was maintained that Kimberley was outside the ambit of the army's high and mighty consideration.
  • Extract from : « The Siege of Kimberley » by T. Phelan
  • The whole surface of my ambit was spread out like a miniature map in my eye, and continues to be.
  • Extract from : « Confessions of Boyhood » by John Albee
  • The correctional courts mentioned deal with the graver offences which are outside the ambit of the juge de paix.
  • Extract from : « France » by Gordon Cochrane Home

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