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UK
/bɹˈɔːd/
]
[ US /ˈbɹɔd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹɔd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
a river two miles broad
three feet wide
a broad river
broad shoulders
a wide necktie
wide margins
wide roads -
broad in scope or content
an invention with broad applications
granted him wide powers
an all-embracing definition
a panoptic study of Soviet nationality
blanket sanctions against human-rights violators
across-the-board pay increases -
lacking subtlety; obvious
gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave -
being at a peak or culminating point
full summer
broad daylight -
showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
tolerant of his opponent's opinions
generous and broad sympathies
a broad political stance
a liberal newspaper -
very large in expanse or scope
a spacious view
spacious skies
a broad lawn
the wide plains -
(of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
a broad southern accent -
not detailed or specific
a broad rule
felt an unspecific dread
the broad outlines of the plan
NOUN
-
slang term for a woman
a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch
How To Use broad In A Sentence
- The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
- These provisions, although expressed at a level of great generality, have often been invoked by those who posit the existence of a broad international duty to cooperate or a right to solidarity.
- Firm words , air shower and broadband are three major key products of the firm net operator.
- While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.
- As a young man he wrote words to popular folk airs and had them printed as broadsheets.
- High-frequency waves broadcast by the radar bounce off a person, scanning the in-and-out movement of the chest and more subtle, but also detectable, motion of the heartbeat against the chest wall.
- Lead commentators, Don Cherry and Ron MacLean broadcast from a remote area. Mike Plume: “8:30 Newfoundland” « Mudpuddle
- He was a strapping lad with broad shoulders and quite tall.
- Italian is rich in broad open vowels and liquid consonants.
- Its hard drive can store 100 movies, and an antenna receives new films via broadcast airwaves.