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Broad

adjective

(compar. broader; superl. broadest)

1.

Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other. Synonym: wide. "A wide necktie" , "Wide margins" , "Three feet wide" , "A river two miles broad" , "Broad shoulders" , "A broad river" Antonym: narrow.

2.

Broad in scope or content. Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide. "An all-embracing definition" , "Blanket sanctions against human-rights violators" , "An invention with broad applications" , "A panoptic study of Soviet nationality" , "Granted him wide powers"

3.

Not detailed or specific. Synonym: unspecific. "The broad outlines of the plan" , "Felt an unspecific dread"

4.

Lacking subtlety; obvious. Synonym: unsubtle.

5.

Being at a peak or culminating point. Synonym: full. "Full summer"

6.

Very large in expanse or scope. Synonyms: spacious, wide. "The wide plains" , "A spacious view" , "Spacious skies"

7.

(of speech) heavily and noticeably regional.

8.

Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness. Synonyms: large-minded, liberal, tolerant. "Generous and broad sympathies" , "A liberal newspaper" , "Tolerant of his opponent's opinions"

noun

1.

Slang term for a woman.

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"Broad" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lincoln the burdens and responsibilities of the Civil War, was present on that occasion, and furnishes the following interesting personal recollections of it: "I saw Abraham Lincoln for the first time, at the Weddell House that evening. He stood on the landing-place at the top of a broad stairway, and the crowd approached him from below. This gave him an exaggerated advantage of his six feet four inches of length. The shapelessness of the lathy form, the shock of coarse black hair surmounting the large head, the retreating forehead—these were not apparent where we stood. My ...

— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... scale, Columbia could be little save an enormous and overwhelming incoherence. It so chiefly remains in my mind. But the ingenious humanity running through the whole conception of it was touching and memorable. And although I came away from my visit still perfectly innocent of any broad theory as to ultimate educational values in America, I came away also with a deeper and more reassuring conviction that America was intensely interested in education, and that all that America had to do in order to arrive ...

— Your United States - Impressions of a first visit • Arnold Bennett

... the sides of her nose. Her eyes were bright and black. She had opened a button or two at the top of her dress, and her general appearance, from her grey hair to her slattern heels, was disordered. Her cap had fallen off on to the ground, and Mr. Blee noticed that her parting was as a broad turnpike road much tramped upon by Time. The room smelt stuffy beyond its wont and reeked not only of spirits but tobacco. This Billy sniffed inquiringly, and Mrs. Coomstock observed the action. "'Twas Lezzard," she said. "I like ...

— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

... showed him Chapelizod, hey?' said the doctor, buoyantly, to that functionary, and marched diagonally across the broad street toward Sturk's house, with a gait and a countenance that might ...

— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... he was startled to hear some one address him by name, and looking up, he saw a powerfully-built black fellow with a long black beard and smiling face standing a dozen yards or so away. He was all but nude, but round his waist was buokled a broad leather police belt with two ammunition pouches; in his right hand he carried a ...

— Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories - 1904 • Louis Becke

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