Dictionary Definition
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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
brādPronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)d
Adjective
en-adj erDerived terms
Translations
wide in extent or scope
having a specified width
- Czech: široký
- Dutch: breed
- Finnish: leveä
- French: large
- German: breit
- Portuguese: largo, larga
- Swedish: bred
strongly regional
- Finnish: leveä
- French: fort
- Swedish: bred
Noun
- (a bit dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
- A colloquial term for a woman or girl.
- Synonyms: see
Translations
a prostitute
- French: mogue, garce
- German: Dirne, Schlampe
- Scottish Gaelic: reipseach, strìopach
- Spanish: puta, ramera
colloquial term for a woman or girl
- Finnish: lyyli
Breton
Noun
Extensive Definition
Broad may refer to:
- Broad (British coin), English gold coin minted under the commonwealth with a bust of Oliver Cromwell on the obverse
- Broad church, Latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England
- Broad Front - Progressive Encounter - New Majority, Uruguayan coalition of political parties and organizations
- Broad gauge, rail gauge greater than the standard gauge of 4'8.5"
- Broad Institute a genomic research institute funded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad
- Broad pennant, swallow-tailed tapering flag flown from the masthead of a ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board
In hydrology:
- Broad Creek, creek in North Carolina
- Broad River, disambiguation
- Benacre Broad, isolated broad in Suffolk, England, within The Broads National Park
- Malthouse Broad, lake at Ranworth in the Norfolk Broads within the British The Broads National Park
- The Broads, network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk
In geography:
- Broad Channel, Queens, community in the borough of Queens in New York City
- Broad Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, one of five communities on King's Island
- Broad Creek, North Carolina, community in carteret county North Crolina
- Broad Street, disambiguation
- French Broad River
- B road, A classification of road in the United Kingdom.
Broad is the name of:
- Chris Broad, former English cricketer and match referee
- Stuart Broad, English cricketer, son of Chris Broad
- C. D. Broad, English philosopher known for his thorough and objective analysis in works such as Scientific Thought (1930) and Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy (1933)
Broad may also refer to:
- 10BROAD36, obsolete standard for carrying 10 Mbit/s Ethernet signals over standard 75 ohm CATV cable over a 3600 meter range
- Broadband
- Broad, an area light, generally a simple incandescent or fluorescent light source (collectively referred to as "the broads" in movie and video production, theaters, TV and photographic studios), as contrasted to more controlled and directional lighting instruments
- A complimentary term for Woman, often used as an expression of endearment. An example of a positive use of the word may be found in the song "Honey Bun" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific
broad in German: Broad
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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