Crossword clues for broad
broad
- Laterally extensive
- Not narrow
- Not limited
- Lacking subtlety
- Word with shouldered or minded
- Kind of daylight?
- Epic in scope
- "___ City" (Comedy Central series)
- Wide, as a street
- Wide side to side
- Not restrictive in scope
- Like some hints
- Like a river at its mouth, not at its head
- Like a liberal arts curriculum
- Kind of ax or cloth
- In __ daylight
- Grand, as some staircases
- Downtown N.Y. street
- Covering many subjects
- Brazenly, in ... daylight
- Beginning for "sword" or "way"
- A bit coarse, as humor
- ___-minded (very tolerant)
- ___ jump (track and field event)
- Pulse from East covered by general embargo
- Of great scope
- Vast
- Penpoint style
- Across-the-board
- Like some humor
- All-encompassing
- Like a liberal arts education
- Like a sombrero's brim
- Panoramic
- Like some shoulders
- Widely distributed
- Overarching
- Like dales, but not glens
- Slang term for a woman
- Spacious
- Extensive in scope
- Like a Bostonian's A
- Kind of jump
- Bette Midler's "A View From a _____"
- Like E.M.K.'s "A"
- Word with cast or side
- Unrestrained
- Secondary thoroughfare of some width
- Run out before Bill bowled first wide
- Spread out
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broad \Broad\ (br[add]d), a. [Compar. Broader (br[add]d"[~e]r); superl. Broadest.] [OE. brod, brad, AS. br[=a]d; akin to OS. br[=e]d, D. breed, G. breit, Icel. brei[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. bred, Goth. braids. Cf. Breadth.]
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. ``Broad and open day.''
--Bp. Porteus.-
Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
A broad mixture of falsehood.
--Locke.Note: Hence:
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Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.
--D. Daggett.In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way.
--E. Everett. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
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Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
As broad and general as the casing air.
--Shak. (Fine Arts) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
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Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide, large, etc.; as, broad-chested, broad-shouldered, broad-spreading, broad-winged.
Broad acres. See under Acre.
Broad arrow, originally a pheon. See Pheon, and Broad arrow under Arrow.
As broad as long, having the length equal to the breadth; hence, the same one way as another; coming to the same result by different ways or processes.
It is as broad as long, whether they rise to others, or bring others down to them.
--L'Estrange.Broad pennant. See under Pennant.
Syn: Wide; large; ample; expanded; spacious; roomy; extensive; vast; comprehensive; liberal.
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
Old English brad "broad, flat, open, extended," from Proto-Germanic *braithaz (cognates: Old Frisian bred, Old Norse breiðr, Dutch breed, German breit, Gothic brouþs), which is of unknown origin. Not found outside Germanic languages. No clear distinction in sense from wide. Related: Broadly. Broad-brim as a style of hat (1680s, broad-brimmed) in 18c.-19c. suggested "Quaker male" from their characteristic attire.
"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. Because of this negative association, and the rise of women's athletics, the track and field broad jump was changed to the long jump c.1967.
Wiktionary
a. wide in extent or scope. n. 1 (context dated English) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals. 2 (context US English) A woman or girl. 3 (context UK English) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. 4 A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
WordNet
adj. having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river" [syn: wide] [ant: narrow]
broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), encompassing, panoptic, wide]
not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread" [syn: unspecific]
lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave" [syn: unsubtle]
being at a peak or culminating point; "broad day"; "full summer"; "high noon" [syn: broad(a), full(a)]
very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: spacious, wide]
(of speech) heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad southern accent"
showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: large-minded, liberal, tolerant]
n. slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Broad or Broads may refer to:
Broad (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played for Addington and Surrey during the 1740s.
The Broad was a English coin worth 20 shillings (20/-) issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. It was a milled gold coin weighing 9.0–9.1 grams, with a diameter of 29 or 30 millimetres, designed by Thomas Simon (also called Symonds).
The obverse of the coin depicts the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell as a laureated Roman emperor, with the inscription OLIVAR D G R P ANG SCO HIB &c PRO — Oliver, by the Grace of God, of the Republic of England, Scotland, Ireland etc., Protector, while the reverse shows a crowned shield depicting the arms of the Commonwealth with the inscription PAX QVAERITVR BELLO 1656 -- Peace is sought through war.
The current value of the coin in "very fine" to "extremely fine" condition is £3,500 to £6,000 as the pieces are very rare, but normally fairly unworn, although a Mr Pinkerton, writing at the time that the coins circulated, noted that many of the coins in circulation were so worn as to be almost flat.
A piedfort version of the coin with an edge inscription is known as a Fifty shilling piece. This is extremely rare, and there are very few examples as it is probably a pattern.
Broad is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Broad (Surrey cricketer)
- Alfred Scott Broad (1854–1929) South Australian artist
- C. D. Broad, English philosopher known for his thorough and objective analysis in works such as Scientific Thought (1930) and Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy (1933)
- Chris Broad, former English cricketer and match referee
- Eli Broad, billionaire and philanthropist
- Francis Alfred Broad, United Kingdom politician; also known as Frank Broad
- Nick Broad (died 2013), English nutritionist
- Perry Broad (1921-93), Brazilian SS officer at Auschwitz concentration camp
- Stephen Broad, former English footballer
- Stuart Broad, English cricketer, son of Chris Broad
- Billy Idol, real name William Albert Michael Broad
- William Broad New York Times writer
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.