broadcast

Meaning

Adj

1. Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
2. Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.
3. (attributive) Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.

Adv

1. Widely in all directions; abroad.
2. (archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.

Noun

1. A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
2. A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
3. (archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

Verb

1. (transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.
2. (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area.
3. (specifically, transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area.
4. (intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
5. (archaic, transitive) To sow seeds over a wide area.

Opposite of

narrowcast

Synonyms

transmission

transmit

spread

disseminate

propagate

announce

relay

circulate

diffuse

broadcasting

programme

show

telecast

air

scatter

distribute

publicize

program

disperse

send

radio transmission

circularise

be on the air

program

radio

📻

beam

radio program

proclaim

make known

programme

blare

circularize

advertise

dispatch

diffusion

cry about

put on the air

pass around

spread news

ship

🚢

post

inform

radiate

relaying

sow

vysílat

drive out

draw out

dissemination

cast

Translations

senden

émission

trasmettere

diffuser

diffondere

trasmissione

Sendung

εκπομπή

emisión

uitzending

omroepen

Rundfunk

übertragen

transmitir

uitzenden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɹɔːdkɑːst/

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English broadcast
From broad + cast.
First attested in the mid 18th century, in the agricultural use of spreading seeds.

Sentences

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