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Broad   /brɔd/   Listen
adjective
Broad  adj.  (compar. broader; superl. broadest)  
1.
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
2.
Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
3.
Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. "Broad and open day."
4.
Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. "A broad mixture of falsehood." Note: Hence: -
5.
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. "The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case." "In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way."
6.
Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
7.
Free; unrestrained; unconfined. "As broad and general as the casing air."
8.
(Fine Arts) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
9.
Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
10.
Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent. Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide, large, etc.; as, broad-chested, broad-shouldered, broad-spreading, broad-winged.
Broad acres. See under Acre.
Broad arrow, originally a pheon. See Pheon, and Broad arrow under Arrow.
As broad as long, having the length equal to the breadth; hence, the same one way as another; coming to the same result by different ways or processes. "It is as broad as long, whether they rise to others, or bring others down to them."
Broad pennant. See under Pennant.
Synonyms: Wide; large; ample; expanded; spacious; roomy; extensive; vast; comprehensive; liberal.


noun
Broad  n.  
1.
The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
2.
The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. (Local, Eng.)
3.
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
4.
A woman, especially one who is sexually promiscuous; usually considered offensive. (slang)





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"Broad" Quotes from Famous Books



... obedient to command he had given his father a kiss, the boy fell asleep on his shoulder, ceasing to know that he was a wandering infant: and, if I remember rightly, he dreamed he was in a ship of cinnamon-wood upon a sea that rolled mighty, but smooth immense broad waves, and tore thing from thing without a sound or ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... broad for refined women. But the fact that Athenian ladies seem to have been allowed to attend the tragedies is a tribute to their intellectual capacities. Only an acute and intelligent mind can follow Aeschylus, Sophocles, ...
— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis
... from between a wide moraine and Meeker Mountain, it is not broad, nor very deep, but it is exceedingly cold and swift, and the only crossing was a beaver-felled aspen, which lay top-foremost toward me, presenting an array of limbs that served as banisters. About midway over the limbs gave out, leaving the smooth aspen trunk as a foot-log. Many ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills
... he was satisfied that he had followed the wisest course thus far. The broad panorama of the morning hills communicated to his spirit a growing elation. He began singing in German a ballad that recited the sorrows of a pale maiden prisoner in a dark tower on the Rhine, whence her true knight rescued her, ...
— The Port of Missing Men • Meredith Nicholson
... in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various


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