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

  • The theme was the global reach of Broadway.
  • That year he wrote his first successful Broadway revue.
  • Geffen was the Broadway backer for the musicals Dreamgirls and Cats.
  • Several pubs in the locality include The Broadway and The Milestone.
  • The Broadway production was enthusiastically received by the critics.
  • Wilson became a New York dilettante, raconteur, and Broadway playwright.
  • It combines the naughtiness of burlesque and the razzle dazzle of Broadway.
  • At age 14 she first appeared on the Broadway stage doing various ingenue parts.
  • He currently stars on Broadway in The Drowsy Chaperone as Underling, the butler.

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