broad

Meaning

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. Gross; coarse; indelicate.
10. Strongly regional.
11. Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Noun

1. 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. A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
4. A kind of floodlight.
5. (slang) A playing card.

Noun

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

Concepts

broad

wide

extensive

large

spacious

vast

ample

open

capacious

flat

general

widespread

big

expansive

great

roomy

commodious

huge

voluminous

rough

bulky

sizable

copious

spread out

comprehensive

expanded

extended

usual

public

extensively

all-embracing

sweeping

widely

blanket

far

dame

woman

abundant

affluent

aplenty

lax

plentiful

profuse

rich

hag

undisguised

sketchy

boundless

thick

wide-ranging

clear

large-minded

liberal

tolerant

unsubtle

across-the-board

all-encompassing

all-inclusive

encompassing

panoptic

unspecific

full

fully

plane

shallow

empty

female

sheila

snub

bare

exposed

generous

suggestive

all of a sudden

limitless

extensiveness

width

inclusive

fat

long

outstretched

vastly

not crowded

developed

of great width

abroad

quite

catholic

square

grand

high

bluff

splay

light slot

light trough

troffer

be

breadth

heavy

lengthy

hen

rangy

across

persnickety

hussy

jade

slut

trollop

all right

decided

discernible

downright

expressed

lucid

open-and-shut

palpable

plain

right

sober

solved

telltale

uninebriated

unintoxicated

visible

uncrowded

burly

earthy

herculean

robust

stalwart

strong

sturdy

tough

well-knit

well-set

common

frequent

generalized

generic

popular

prevailing

rife

universal

crude

board

unconstrained

diverse

bitch

whore

broadly

extent

area

expanse

broader

broadest

wide-mouthed

bird

chick

gal

varied

immense

wide sense

baggy

loose

caldron

round

wok

hatch

incubate

open-minded

transparent

wideness

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹɔːd/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

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