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English

Etymology

brād

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at en-us-broad.ogg
: Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɔː(r)d|-ɔː(r)d

Adjective

(of a person or object) wide in extent or scope
having a specified width (e.g. 3 ft broad)
In the Context of strongly regional

Antonyms

(Regarding occupied space,width of an object)

thin
narrow

(Regarding body width)

skinny

Derived terms

Translations

Breton: ledan
Czech: {{t-|cs|široký|m}}
Dutch:
Finnish: laaja, laaja-alainen
French:
German:

Hebrew: רחב (rakhav) , רחבה (rekhava)
Portuguese: {{t+|pt|amplo|m}}, {{t|pt|ampla|f}}
Russian: {{t+|ru|широкий|sc=Cyrl}}
Spanish: {{t+|es|ancho|m}}, {{t|es|ancha|f}}
Swedish:
Welsh: {{t-|cy|llydan|xs=Welsh}}

Czech: {{t-|cs|široký|m}}
Dutch:
Finnish:
French:

German:
Portuguese: {{t+|pt|largo|m}}, {{t+|pt|larga|f}}
Swedish:

Finnish:
French:

Swedish:

Noun

(a bit dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
A colloquial term for a woman or girl.
: Synonyms: see wikiSaurus:woman

Translations

French: {{t-|fr|mogue|f}}, {{t+|fr|garce|f}}
German: {{t-|de|Dirne|f}}, {{t+|de|Schlampe|f}}

Scottish Gaelic: {{t-|gd|reipseach|f|xs=Scottish Gaelic}}, {{t+|gd|strìopach|f|xs=Scottish Gaelic}}
Spanish: {{t+|es|puta|f}}, {{t+|es|ramera|f}}

Finnish:

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Breton

Noun

nation

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Broad \Broad\ (br[add]d), a. [Compar. Broader
(br[add]d"[~e]r); superl. Broadest.] [OE. brod, brad, AS.
br[=a]d; akin to OS. br[=e]d, D. breed, G. breit, Icel.
brei[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. bred, Goth. braids. Cf. Breadth.]
1. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed
to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch
broad.
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2. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad
expanse of ocean.
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3. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
"Broad and open day." --Bp. Porteus.
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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.
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A broad mixture of falsehood. --Locke.
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Note: Hence:
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5. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
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The words in the Constitution are broad enough to
include the case. --D. Daggett.
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In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way. --E.
Everett.
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6. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
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7. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
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As broad and general as the casing air. --Shak.
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8. (Fine Arts) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
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9. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad
joke; broad humor.
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10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
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Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide,
large, etc.; as, broad-chested, broad-shouldered,
broad-spreading, broad-winged.
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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.
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It is as broad as long, whether they rise to others,
or bring others down to them. --L'Estrange.
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Broad pennant. See under Pennant.
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Syn: Wide; large; ample; expanded; spacious; roomy;
extensive; vast; comprehensive; liberal.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Broad \Broad\, n.
1. The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
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2. The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded
fen. [Local, Eng.] --Southey.
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3. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of
cylinders. --Knight.
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4. A woman, especially one who is sexually promiscuous; --
usually considered offensive. [slang]
[PJC] broad-axe
Broadaxe
Broadax

WordNet broad
adj 1: having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the
other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins";
"three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad
shoulders"; "a broad river" [syn: wide] [ant: narrow]
2: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases";
"an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against
human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad
applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"-
T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-board,
all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a),
encompassing, panoptic, wide]
3: not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad
outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread" [syn: unspecific]
4: lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was
time to leave" [syn: unsubtle]
5: being at a peak or culminating point; "broad day"; "full
summer"; "high noon" [syn: broad(a), full(a)]
6: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide
plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: spacious,
wide]
7: (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad
southern accent"
8: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad
political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a
liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
[syn: large-minded, liberal, tolerant]
n : slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a
mean punch"

Moby Dictionary
Jane , Jezebel , abstract , accented , aleatoric , aleatory , alveolar ,
amorphous , ample , amplitudinous , apical , apico-alveolar ,
apico-dental , approximate , articulated , artless , assimilated , babe ,
baby , back , bad woman , baggage , barytone , biddy , bilabial , bimbo ,
bird , bitch , bland , blobby , blue , bluff , blunt , blurred , blurry ,
bright , broad-based , broad-gauged , broad-minded , broad-shouldered ,
brusque , burlesque , cacuminal , candid , capacious , catholic ,
central , cerebral , chance , chancy , chaotic , checked , chick , chippy ,
clear , clitoromaniac , close , coarse , cocotte , collective , colleen ,
comic , comical , commodious , comprehensive , confused , consonant ,
consonantal , continuant , cookie , copious , cosmopolitan , cutie ,
dame , damoiselle , damsel , deep , demoiselle , dental , diffuse ,
direct , dirty , disordered , dissimilated , doll , dorsal , downright ,
drab , earthy , easy lay , easy woman , ecumenical , ecumenistic ,
emphatic , evident , expansive , explicit , extended , extending ,
extensive , far-embracing , far-extending , far-flung , far-flying ,
far-going , far-ranging , far-reaching , farcical , featureless , filly ,
filthy , flat , floozy , foggy , forthright , frail , frail sister ,
frank , frankhearted , free , free-speaking , free-spoken ,
free-tongued , front , full , fuzzy , gal , general , generalized ,
generic , generous , genuine , girl , girlie , glide , glossal , glottal ,
grisette , gross , gutter , guttural , hard , harridan , hazy ,
heart-to-heart , heavy , heifer , hen , high , hit-or-miss , hoyden ,
hussy , hysteromaniac , ill-defined , imprecise , improper , inaccurate ,
inchoate , inclusive , incoherent , indecent , indecisive , indefinable ,
indefinite , indelicate , indeterminable , indeterminate ,
indiscriminate , indistinct , inelegant , inexact , infinite ,
ingenuous , intonated , jade , jeune fille , jill , junior miss , labial ,
labiodental , labiovelar , large , large-scale , lascivious , lass ,
lassie , lateral , latitudinarian , lax , lewd , liberal , light ,
lingual , liquid , little missy , loose , loose woman , low ,
mademoiselle , maid , maiden , main , mid , minx , miss , missy ,
mock-heroic , monophthongal , muted , narrow , nasal , nasalized ,
nebulous , neutral , noninsular , nonspecific , number , nymphet ,
nympho , nymphomaniac , obscene , obscure , obvious , occlusive ,
off color , open , openhearted , orderless , outspoken , oxytone ,
palatal , palatalized , pharyngeal , pharyngealized , phonemic ,
phonetic , phonic , pickup , piece , pitch , pitched , plain ,
plain-spoken , pornographic , posttonic , pronounced , quean , random ,
rank , raw , retroflex , romp , roomy , rough , round , rounded , rude ,
schoolgirl , schoolmaid , schoolmiss , semivowel , shadowed forth ,
shadowy , shapeless , sincere , skirt , slapstick , slip , slut , soft ,
sonant , spacious , spacious of mind , spread out , spreading ,
stochastic , stopped , straight , straight-out , straightforward ,
stressed , strong , strumpet , subdeb , subdebutante , subteen ,
subteener , surd , sweeping , syllabic , tart , teenybopper , tense ,
thick , throaty , titillating , tolerant , tomato , tomboy , tonal ,
tonic , tragicomic , transparent , trollop , trull , twangy , unaccented ,
unbigoted , uncharacterized , unchecked , unclear , unconcealed ,
unconstrained , uncouth , undefined , undestined , undetermined ,
undifferentiated , undisguised , unequivocal , unfanatical ,
ungentlemanly , unguarded , unhidebound , unladylike , unparochial ,
unplain , unprovincial , unrefined , unreserved , unrestrained ,
unrounded , unshaded , unspecific , unspecified , unstressed , unsubtle ,
uteromaniac , vague , vast , veiled , velar , virgin , vocalic , vocoid ,
voiced , voiceless , voluminous , vowel , vowellike , vulgar , wanton ,
weak , wench , wholesale , whore , wide , wide-banked , wide-bottomed ,
wide-branched , wide-breasted , wide-brimmed , wide-eared ,
wide-extended , wide-extending , wide-faced , wide-framed ,
wide-hipped , wide-leaved , wide-lipped , wide-minded , wide-nosed ,
wide-petaled , wide-ranging , wide-reaching , wide-rimmed ,
wide-roving , wide-set , wide-spaced , wide-spanned , wide-streeted ,
wide-stretching , wide-tracked , wide-wayed , wide-winged , widespread ,
woman , young creature , young thing