- slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"
- wide: 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"
- across-the-board: 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"
- not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread"
- lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"
- broad(a): being at a peak or culminating point; "broad daylight"; "full summer"
- very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies"
- The Broad was a British 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).
- Broad (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played for Addington and Surrey during the 1740s.
- (The Broads) The Broads are a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. ...
- A prostitute, a woman of loose morals; A colloquial term for a woman or girl; A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk; wide in extent or scope; having a specified width (e.g. 3 ft broad); strongly regional; velarized, i.e. not palatalized
- (broader) comparative form of broad: more broad
- (Broader) Hypernyms are more general nouns or verbs. Hypernymy is the inverse of hyponymy: "vehicle" has a broader sense than "car", while the sense of "ambulance" is narrower, so "ambulance" is a hyponym of "car", and "car" is a hypernym of "ambulance".
- (broadly) having a length:breadth ratio between 6:5 and 1:1; if the ratio is less then the shape is described as very broadly. cf. narrowly
- (B-roads) B-roads are local routes and have 3 or 4 digit numbers prefixed with 'B'.
- (BROADS) The planks next to the Garboard.
- A rectangular open-faced light which is used for general fill or for cyc illumination. (Lighting)
- wool which is on the strong side for its quality number, or for its type.
- A picture-language tasting term. In common with many descriptors for taste, it is hard to give a precise definition for this, but imagine a wine that has flavour and aroma elements that peak across the whole spectrum of tastes and smells, and you've got yourself a 'broad' wine.
- was written brade, brede, and braed. We have preserved the first in the adjective broad, bu the pronunciation of the noun bredth we take from the second, and the orthogra[p]hy most absurdly from the last.^(2)
- Covers the subject very generally; not focused.
- prefix to leaf-shape: reduces length:breadth ratio, up to 40% from median value.
- A large open light generally used for fill or to light up a background.
- A full-bodied, complex wine with plenty of subtleties.
- An open faced light used to throw light evenly, often used as fill light.