broad
IPA: brˈɔd
noun
- (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
- (slang, archaic) A playing card.
- (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
- (US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated) A woman or girl.
- A surname.
adjective
- Wide in extent or scope.
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
- (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
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Examples of "broad" in Sentences
- The range is purposefully broad.
- The broad outlines of the theory.
- The debate is vigorous and broad.
- The broad facts are the following.
- The cones are ovoid, long and broad.
- The part of the skull is notably broad.
- The clinical spectrum of the disease is broad.
- The category is broad to the point of uselessness.
- The scope of the restructured programme was broad.
- It is for the broad masses of the proletariat and peasantry.
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