broad

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. Wide in extent or scope.
2. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
3. Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
4. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
5. Plain; evident.
6. General rather than specific.
7. Unsubtle; obvious.
8. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
9. (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
10. Strongly regional.
11. Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Noun

1. (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
2. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
3. (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
4. A kind of floodlight.
5. (archaic, slang) A playing card.

Noun

1. (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
2. (US, colloquial, dated, slang, sometimes) A woman or girl.

Conceptes

ample

general

ampli

vast

folgat

abundant

tolerant

dona

👩

a l’estranger

espaiós

liberal

complet

global

paia

Sinònims

wide

extensive

large

spacious

vast

ample

open

capacious

flat

widespread

expansive

big

general

roomy

great

voluminous

huge

rough

commodious

sizable

copious

bulky

spread out

expanded

comprehensive

extended

public

all-embracing

widely

far

blanket

sweeping

extensively

usual

sketchy

all-inclusive

shallow

rich

🤑

plentiful

all-encompassing

plane

profuse

encompassing

empty

boundless

lax

liberal

aplenty

hag

fully

Traduccions

large

breit

ancho

largo

weit

amplio

wijd

largo

breed

ample

ampio

général

étendu

ruim

amplo

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɹɔːd/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: brood

Heretat de anglès antic: brād

Cognat amb escocès: braid

Cognat amb frisó occidental: breed

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: breed

Cognat amb baix alemany: breed

Cognat amb neerlandès: breed

Cognat amb alemany: breit

Cognat amb danès: -

Cognat amb suec: -

Cognat amb noruec bokmål: bred

Cognat amb noruec: brei

Cognat amb islandès: breiður

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Scots braid (“broad”), West Frisian breed (“broad”), Saterland Frisian breed (“broad”), Low German breed (“broad”), breet, Dutch breed (“broad”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål bred (“broad”), Norwegian brei (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).

Frases

This role was a broad parody of the fascist then-dictator of Italy , Benito Mussolini .