broadway
IPA: brˈɔdweɪ
Root Word: Broadway
noun
- A street name, typically for a wide road; a broad way.
- A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
- The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
- The theater district of Manhattan.
- The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
- (metonymically) The American theater industry.
- (Manitoba, metonymically) The government of Manitoba (from the Legislative Building's address, on Broadway).
- Two villages in England:
- A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SP0937).
- A village and civil parish in South Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3215).
- A hamlet in The Havens community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8713).
- A village in County Wexford, Ireland.
- A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A neighbourhood of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey.
- A town in North Carolina.
- A town in Virginia.
- A rare surname
- (poker slang) The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.
- An esplanade.
- (poker slang) A straight from ace to ten in Texas hold 'em.
adjective
- (by extension of the proper noun senses) Flashy; showy.
- (poker slang) Of, or pertaining to, the cards that make up a Broadway straight.
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Examples of "broadway" in Sentences
- Somebody call broadway to find the fashion and the dude.
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- He would be great on broadway, which is what I think his background is.
- Umm ... did you guys know that Daniel actually began his career in broadway?
- One item on my life list is to see 50 "broadway" musicals by the time I'm 50.
- It could have LASTING DAMAGE to broadway, that is what everybody needs to reminder!
- And I’ve just seen the movie version of Rent and Chicago (broadway is waaay to expensive) ..
- "broadway" because it would be hard for me to see all of them in NYC because of scheduling - mine and the musicals '.
- When they're linked to an occasion and thus-themed - like, I recently made music-note-decorated cupcakes for a "broadway" party and drew little Oscar statuettes on cupcakes for an oscar party.
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