Lexic.us

Definition of Broad

1. Noun. Slang term for a woman. "A broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"

2. Adjective. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other. "A broad river"

3. Adjective. Broad in scope or content. "Granted him wide powers"

4. Adjective. Not detailed or specific. "Felt an unspecific dread"

5. Adjective. Lacking subtlety; obvious. "Gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"

6. Adjective. Being at a peak or culminating point. "Full summer"

7. Adjective. Very large in expanse or scope. "Spacious skies"

8. Adjective. (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional. "A broad southern accent"

9. Adjective. Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness. "Tolerant of his opponent's opinions"

Definition of Broad

1. a. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

2. n. The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.

Definition of Broad

1. Adjective. (context: of a person or object) Wide in extent or scope. ¹

2. Adjective. Having a specified width (e.g. ''3 ft broad''). ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of an accent) Strongly regional. ¹

4. Adjective. (context: Irish language) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized. ¹

5. Noun. (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals. ¹

6. Noun. (American) A woman or girl. ¹

7. Noun. (U.K.) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. ¹

8. Noun. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Broad

1. wide [adj BROADER, BROADEST] / an expansion of a river [n -S] - See also: wide

Lexicographical Neighbors of Broad

brivla brize brizes brmmm bro broach broachable broached broached spire broached spires

broacher broachers broaches broaching broacht broad(a) broad-bean broad-bean plant broad-brimmed broad-brush

broad-headed broad-leaf broad-leafed broad-leafs broad-leaved broad-leaved bottletree broad-leaved dock broad-leaved epiphyllum broad-leaved everlasting pea

Literary usage of Broad

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"ment about as broad as long, and sterile; second segment twice as broad and four times as long as the first; it is bisexual. The third (terminal) segment is ..."

2. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1904)
"THE Sutton broad Biological Laboratory was founded for study of the ... It is situated on the edge of the broad, on a spit of land running out from the ..."

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