broad
Significado (English)
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- Wide in extent or scope.
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
- Gross; coarse; indelicate.
- Strongly regional.
- Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
Synonyms
wide-mouthed
wide sense
not crowded
of great width
light slot
light trough
hussy
Frecuencia
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/bɹɔːd/
Etimoloxía (English)
In summary
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”).
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