broad

Meaning

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.

wide

wide-mouthed

wide sense

unintoxicated

not crowded

of great width

light slot

light trough

hussy

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹɔːd/

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”).