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broad
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Word definitions for broad in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a big/broad/wide smile (= when you are very happy ) ▪ She had a big smile on her face. a broad base ▪ The first year of the course aims to provide students with a broad base of knowledge. a broad/broad-based/wide ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broad \Broad\, n. The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar. The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. [Local, Eng.] --Southey. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. --Knight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"woman," slang, 1911, perhaps suggestive of broad (adj.) hips, but it also might trace to American English abroadwife , word for a woman (often a slave) away from her husband. Earliest use of the slang word suggests immorality or coarse, low-class women. ...
Usage examples of broad.
As they reached the broad open space where I had had my first disquieting glimpse of the moonlit water I could see them plainly only a block away--and was horrified by the bestial abnormality of their faces and the doglike sub-humanness of their crouching gait.
So they abode there, and made a fire by the waterside, and watched there, turn and turn about, till it was broad day.
I began to wonder what it was like for Aboriginal people with really dark skin and broad features, how did Australians react to them?
Jessy agreed absently while her gaze took in the broad expanse of plains before them, rugged and rolling into forever.
He saw one young Abies girl, then another, seated side by side on the floor, in the shadows between the wooden end-legs of a broad workbench and the far-left wall.
His ague had caused him to swathe his throat and chin with a broad linen cravat, and he wore a loose damask powdering-gown secured by a cord round the waist.
They now came up over the big dirigible and tried to plant the last two bombs on her broad back, but the Bullet jerked so badly due to the lost aileron, that the bombs widely missed their marks.
She had the broad features common to the Akka people and the broad shoulders of a woman who has tackled a lot of reindeer, and it was hard to tell whether she contemplated those dogs with such an avid gaze because they looked fit to serve her, or to be eaten for supper.
As the Grampus passed through one of these sea gates, Alec saw that the broad causeways bristled with catapults and ballistas.
There was an intimacy to the scene that made Alec halt, but before he could withdraw Feeya caught sight of him and broke into a broad, welcoming smile.
The broad door Alec had seen from the outside stood barred at their left.
Seregil said with a yawn as he and Alec settled down for the night in the broad guest chamber bed.
The Amar knelt beside him in their circle lying hidden outside a broad clearing.
And here at the Cytaean mainland and from the Amarantine mountains far away and the Circaean plain, eddying Phasis rolls his broad stream to the sea.
Joints is the only place you can pull up, an' when you stop you got to buy somepin so you can sling the bull with the broad behind the counter.