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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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... resigned to the will of the incomprehensible beings who controlled them. But Mildred's blood was dancing still and she abandoned herself to the pleasure of it, undistracted by speech. Beyond the shining Thames, wide-curving through its broad green meadows, and the gray bridge and tower of Eynsham, that great landscape, undulating, clothed in the mystery of moving cloud-shadows, gave her an agreeable impression of being a view into a strange country, hundreds ...
— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods
... ready, which was very soon, Tom softly opened the door of their parlor, thrusting one foot out into the broad corridor. As he did so he kicked against a man lying prostrate on the floor. It was Nicolas, the Mexican attendant, sleeping across their threshold that he might be on hand ...
— The Young Engineers in Mexico • H. Irving Hancock
... levels the ground evenly. The next cultivation is performed by both corn-plow and hoe. In the final working I do not permit a sharp-slanting slope from the plants downward, so that the rain is kept from reaching the roots. There is a broad hilling up, so as to have a slope inward toward the plants, as well as away from them. This method, with the deep, loosened soil beneath the plants, secures against drought, while the decayed fertilizers give a strong and ...
— The Home Acre • E. P. Roe
... July, Murat proceeded towards Ostrowno with his cavalry. At the distance of two leagues from that village, Domon, Du Coetlosquet, Carignan, and the 8th hussars, were advancing in column upon a broad road, lined by a double row of large birch trees. These hussars were near reaching the summit of a hill, on which they could only get a glimpse of the weakest portion of a corps, composed of three regiments of cavalry of the Russian ...
— History of the Expedition to Russia - Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 • Count Philip de Segur
... rural residence of Mr. J. Martin White, stands in a fair country seven miles to the west of Dundee. The grounds of the mansion are a dream of sylvan beauty, with the broad bosom of the River Tay within the vision and beyond that the blue line of the ...
— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller


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