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What does narrow mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word narrow? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
  2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  3. (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
  4. Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted
  5. Having a small margin or degree.
  6. (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
  7. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  8. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  9. (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
  2. (intransitive) To get narrower.
  3. (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
Noun
  1. (plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
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