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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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... Trojan Histories." And afterward when I remembered myself of my simpleness and unperfectness that I had in both languages, that is to wit in French and in English, for in France was I never, and was born and learned my English in Kent, in the Weald, where I doubt not is spoken as broad and rude English as in any place of England; and have continued by the space of 30 years for the most part in the countries of Brabant, Flanders, Holland, and Zealand. And thus when all these things came before me, after that I had made and written five or six quires I fell in despair of this ...
— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various
... with a great sigh that belied her smile. They took each other's hands, like children, and went down the broad stairway together. ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris
... another small ant-eater found in Guiana, called the striped ant-eater (Myrmecophaga striata), from the marks on its body. Its general colour is of a tawny hue, the under parts being white. It is marked with broad, distinct, blackish transverse stripes, and the tail is annulated with similar ones. Its whole length, from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, is about twenty inches. The snout is elongated, the upper mandible extending very little beyond ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston
... town. But most interesting of all to Miss Larrabee were the daguerreotypes—quaint old portraits in their little black boxes, framed in plush and gilt. The old woman brought out picture after picture—her husband's among the others, in a broad beaver hat with a high choker taken back in Brattleboro before he came to Kansas. She looked at it for a long minute, and then said gaily to Miss Larrabee: "He was a handsome boy—quite the beau of the State when we were married—Judge ...
— In Our Town • William Allen White
... answer made King Arthur, breathing hard: 'My end draws nigh; 'tis time that I were gone. Make broad thy shoulders to receive my weight, And bear me to the margin; yet I fear 165 My wound hath taken cold, ...
— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson


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