Broad

Definition: Broad

Broad

Adjective

1. Having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river".

2. Broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers".

3. Not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread".

4. Lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave".

5. Being at a peak or culminating point; "broad day"; "full summer"; "high noon".

6. Very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies".

7. (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad southern accent".

8. Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions".

Noun

1. Slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "broad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Finance

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Broad

Affirmation

Pronunciative, affirmative, soi-disant; positive; certain; express, explicit; (patent); absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted; predicable.

Generality

Adjective: general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping; encyclopedical, widespread; (dispersed).

Gulf Lake

Lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir. (store); alberca, barachois, hog wallow.

Impurity

Adjective: impure; unclean; (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.

Crosswords: Broad

You're a good-looking boy: you've big, broad shoulders (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman)

My father was killed making a routine traffic stop in broad daylight by some punk who didn't want no ticket (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

A broad river divides my lovers: family, duty, fate (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

Another twenty-five years and you'll be able to shake their hands in broad daylight (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks)

So always comport yourself in a manner befitting - quick! Honk at that broad! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight ("Rock Around the Clock"; performing artist: Bill Haley & the Comets)

I'm thinkin to myself this broad must be as dumb as she look (Get Away; performing artist: Jade)

This broad is quick to copy every time I get a new weave (Get Away; performing artist: Jade)

Shakedown dreams walking in broad daylight (Burning Down The House; performing artist: Talking Heads)

Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- balancing them badly. (references; author: unknown)

The Broad Coalition (1972)

In Broad Daylight (1971)

Room and Broad (1968)

Wee-gee Broad (1967)

The Broad Road (1923)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Kaufman & Broad SA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Dried, Shelled Beans Excluding Broad Beans and Horse Beans: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Astral Projection for Beginners: Learn Several Techniques to Gain a Broad Awareness of Other Realms of Existence (reference)

• Broad and Alien Is the World (reference)

• French Broad (reference)

• In Broad Daylight (reference)

• Same Game, Different Rules: How to Get Ahead Without Being a Bully Broad, Ice Queen, or "Ms. Understood" (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Broad River Notebook (reference)

• North Side Topics Broad Ripple-glendale (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Give My Regards to Broad Street (reference)

• Joan Rivers: A Broad in London (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Across the Broad Atlantic (reference)

• Give My Regards To Broad Street (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Goldblatt Trowel Trade Tools GB05270 4" Hammer End Broad Knife (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An illustration depicting a lateral view of a Mansonia mosquito with a blunt abdomen, short palpus, irregular pattern of the mesonotum and broad, bi-colored wing scales. Credit: CDC.

Astronomers using the Hubble telescope made the first broad search for planets far beyond ... Credit: NASA.

Spring reconnaissance in the Broad Pass District After leaving the railroad at Cantwell Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Callinectes sapidus. 3. Ventral surface of a virgin female, showing the narrow triangular abdomen. 4. Ventral surface of an ovigerous female, showing the broad, semicircular abdomen. In: "Life History of the Blue Crab (Callinectes Sapidus" by W. P. Hay. Report of the Bureau of Fisheries 1904. P. 413, Plate II. Credit: Fisheries.

A broad frontal cloud band over the low latitudes of the western North Pacific Ocean. Image photographed by TIROS IX, pass 627/624, camera 2, frame 15. Picture of the Month, "Monthly Weather Review," July 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Broad view of Twin Lakes and valley. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Acrylic painting of a spectacled eider flying over an Arctic seascape by Joseph Hautman, 410 Sycamore Circle, Plymouth, MN 55441. Hautman's design was one of 585 entered in the 1991 Federal Duck Stamp Contest. He studied art and physics at the University of Minnesota where he received a degree in physics and later received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. His published work has contributed to the understanding of a broad range of phenomenon -- from the shapes of water droplets and snow flakes to the miscroscopic structures of soap bubbles and cell membranes. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

In Broad Sound, Boston, Massachusetts, on 18 March 1943. Photographed by an aircraft from the Squantum Naval Air Station. Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I, page 189, depicting Federal ships investigating Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, prior to their successful attack on Confederate fortifications there. Ships and other items identified across the bottom of the print include (from left to right): USS Mercury, with Generals Sherman and Stevens & staff on board; USS Penguin, with Hilton Head Battery beyond; USS Pawnee; Broad River (in distance); CSS Huntress (distance); USS Seneca; steamer Screamer (distance); USS Ottawa with Capt. Rogers & General Wright on board; steamer Everglades (distance, beyond Ottawa; USS Pembina; CSS Lady Davis (distance); Beaufort River (distance); Bay Point Battery (distance); USS Curlew; Confederate camp (distance); USS Isaac Smith. Credit: NAVY.

Ridgway Library building (proposed to be erected on Broad & Christian Streets under the will of Dr. James Rush) / Addison Hutton, architect. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

No, it was long enough, broad enough, handsome enough

While, like broad waves of golden grain, Or sunlit hues on cloistered pane, His colour came and went again

The broad daylight streamed into the room, and lighted up the face of M. Madeleine

His hands were hard, with broad fingers and nails as thick and ridged as little clam shells

The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling

Some I have seen, sixty or a hundred feet long and thirty feet broad.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

These fall into three broad categories. (references)

The cognitive consequences of TBI are similarly broad. (references)

Beneath this region, a broad zone of electron-dense elastotic material is evident. (references)

Business

Internet usage has expanded to include a broad public. (references)

A broad variety of automotive components are being produced. (references)

The relationship of the United States with Mexico is broad and complex. (references)

Children

Israel and the occupied territories

There is a broad network of mother and child clinics, which provide prenatal care as well as postnatal follow-up. (references)

Barbados

The Welfare Department offers counseling on a broad range of family-related issues, and the Child Care Board conducts counseling for victims of child abuse. (references)

Saint Lucia

A broad legal framework exists for the protection of children through the Criminal Code, the Children and Young Persons Act, the Family Court Act, the Domestic Violence Act, and the Attachment of Earnings Act. (references)

Civil Liberties

Dominican Republic

Public and private universities enjoy broad academic freedom. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The IMC has broad authority to punish violations to the code of practice. (references)

Korea

Such individuals, as a category, suffered broad discrimination in the past. (references)

Discrimination

South Africa

The act addresses discrimination in a broad context in the workplace, health care, education, services, pensions, and other socio-economic areas. (references)

Economic History

Morocco

Broad money (M2) grew by about 8 percent in 2000. (references)

Brazil

The bureaucracy has broad discretionary authority. (references)

Human Rights

Chile

The Supreme Court continues to work with the other branches of government on broad judicial reform. (references)

Sri Lanka

The ER gave security forces broad powers to arrest and detain without charge or the right to judicial review. (references)

Thailand

Defendants tried in ordinary criminal courts enjoy a broad range of legal rights, including access to a lawyer of their choosing. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

The Basic Agrarian Law states that land rights cannot be "in conflict with national and state interests," which provides the Government with a broad legal basis for land seizures. (references)

Brazil

The Constitution grants the indigenous population broad rights, including the protection of their cultural patrimony and the exclusive use of their traditional lands; however, the Government has fallen short of securing these rights for indigenous people in practice. (references)

Minorities

Japan

Obstacles to naturalization include broad discretion available to adjudicating officers and great emphasis on Japanese-language ability. (references)

Political Economy

Tanzania

Pervasive corruption continued to have a broad impact on human rights. (references)

Cyprus

There is broad cooperation between the two governments on a host of issues. (references)

Yemen

PSO officers have broad discretion over perceived national security issues. (references)

Political Rights

Zambia

Under the Constitution, the President exercises broad authority. (references)

Greece

Opposition parties function freely and have broad access to the media. (references)

Uruguay

The Colorado party, the National (Blanco) party, the Broad Front coalition, and the New Space party are the four major political groupings. (references)

Trade

Israel

OPIC also provides insurance against a broad range of political risks. (references)

Argentina

The GOA has reduced the import duty for a broad range of new capital goods to zero percent. (references)

Finland

In addition to financing, the corporation offers a broad range of fund-management and advisory services. (references)

Travel

Luxembourg

TV viewers currently have access to a broad range of programs from around the world via satellite. (references)

Australia

Australia's cultural diversity provides a broad choice of cuisine, and modern Australian chefs are reaching new heights of creativity. (references)

Women

Poland

Observers note that the broad scope of the office's mandate dilutes its ability to function as an effective advocate of women's issues. (references)

Worker Rights

Kenya

Moreover, the act gives the Minister of Labor broad discretionary power to determine the legality of any strike. (references)

Gabon

The Labor Code governs working conditions and benefits for all sectors and provides a broad range of protection to workers. (references)

Azerbaijan

Combinations of these and other strategies are the only way for broad sectors of the urban population to reach a subsistence income level. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A broad clearing

A broad ford

A broad clearing

Expressions using "broad": a broad hint ♦ a broad joke ♦ a broad mind ♦ as broad as long ♦ broad accent ♦ Broad acres ♦ broad arrow ♦ broad bean ♦ broad beans ♦ broad beech fern ♦ broad board ♦ broad Bottom ♦ broad Brook ♦ broad Church ♦ broad coverage ♦ broad daylight ♦ broad deal ♦ broad Fields ♦ broad gauge ♦ broad grin ♦ broad hatchet ♦ broad hint ♦ broad hips ♦ broad ideas ♦ broad in the beam ♦ broad interpretation ♦ broad jump ♦ broad leaved ♦ broad leaved centaury ♦ broad leaved goldenrod ♦ Broad Ligament ♦ broad minded ♦ broad money ♦ broad nosed ♦ broad outline ♦ broad pennant ♦ broad river ♦ broad Run ♦ Broad seal ♦ broad shoulders ♦ broad spectrum lamp ♦ broad tapeworm ♦ broad Top ♦ broad Top City ♦ have a broad back ♦ in a broad way ♦ in broad daylight ♦ in broad lines ♦ in the broad daylight ♦ man of broad acres ♦ on the broad earth ♦ on the broad of the back. Additional references.

Beginning with "broad": broad-and-loose, broad-appeal, broad-ax, broad-axe, broad-band, broad-banded armadillo, broad-based, broad-basing, broad-beamed, broad-bean, broad-bean plant, broad-beans, broad-billed, broad-bladed, broad-blown, broad-bordered, broad-breasted, Broad-brimmed, broad-brimmed hat, broad-browed, broad-brush, broad-cast, broad-casting, broad-chested, broad-church, broad-class, broad-classes, broad-crested cockatoo, broad-crowned, broad-cut, broad-faced, broad-faker, broad-fold, broad-front, broad-fronted, broad-gauge, broad-gauged, broad-glass, broad-headed, broad-hipped, Broad-horned, broad-jawed, broad-jowled, broad-knitted, broad-lapelled, Broad-leafed, Broad-leaved, broad-leaved bottletree, broad-leaved dock, broad-leaved everlasting pea, broad-leaved montia, broad-leaved plantain, broad-leaved twayblade, broad-lobed, broad-meshed, broad-minded, broad-minded vs narrow-minded broadminded broad, broad-mindedly, broad-mindedness, broad-money, broad-ranging, broad-scale, broad-seated, broad-set, broad-sheet, broad-sheets, broad-shouldered, broad-side, broad-sleeved, broad-spectrum, broad-sweep, broad-swords, broad-their, broad-tip, broad-wheeled, broad-winged.

Ending with "broad": blade-broad.

Albanian

banal (banal, blue, common or garden, copybook, corny, hackneyed, platitudinous, salacious), tolerant (easygoing, large minded, permissive, tolerant), i plotë (all out, big, clear, close, complete, comprehensive, crowded, dead, direct, dyed in the wool, entire, flush, fraught, full, gross, integral, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plummy, pregnant, radical, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unabbreviated, uncut, unquestioning, utter, whole), i gjerë (ample, broadminded, capacious, champaign, commodious, expanded, extensive, far flung, far reaching, hospitable, large, large scale, liberal, massive, mighty, rangy, roomy, spacious, splay, sweeping, vast, vasty, wide), gjerë (broadly, large, roomily, spaciously). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسيح (ample, capacious, expansive, roomy, spacious, vast), ‏متحرر (broad minded, freed, large minded, liberal, open minded, progressive, released, unchained), ‏مطلق العنان (unbridled), ‏واسع (ample, capacious, colossal, extensive, fair, far flung, generous, immense, large, mighty, oceanic, rich, spacious, wide, widish), ‏واضح (apparent, bold, clear, conspicuous, decided, definite, elucidative, evident, explicit, express, frank, intelligible, legible, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, outspoken, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plump, pointed, pronounced, punctual, purposely, seeming, sharp, specific, transparent, trenchant, visible), ‏عريض (beamy, floppy, squab, wide), ‏رحب الأفق, ‏رئيسي (arch, arterial, cardinal, central, chief, foremost, fundamental, head on, key-, leading, main, major, master, masterful, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sovereign, staple), ‏بين (amidst, among, articulate, between, bring to light, distinct, elucidate, evident, explicit, express, indicate, inter alia, midst, obvious, ostensible, overt, seeming, self evident, set forth, show, through, unequivocal), ‏بذئ (abusive, blue, curious, salacious, saucy, scurrilous, smutty, spicy). (various references)

Basque

zabal (wide). (various references)

Bulgarian 

широк (ample, capacious, catholic, deep, extensive, flaring, flyaway, full, large, loose, neglige, spacious, sweeping, untight, vast, voluminous, wide), общ (aggregate, blanket, collective, common, communal, corporate, general, generic, global, impersonal, joint, omnibus, overall, solid, total, wide), обширен (ample, commodious, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far flung, generic, large, large scale, rangy, spacious, vast, vasty, voluminous, wide), подчертан (emphasized, emphatic, marked, pointed, positive, pronounced, studious, underlined, underscored). (various references)

Catalan

ample. (various references)

Chinese 

闊 (peep, pry into, rich, wide), 汎 (float, mercury, pan-, vast), 摦 (wide), 宽广, 寬 (lenient, wide). (various references)

Czech

zřetelný (articulate, audible, clear, conspicuous, distinct, distinctive, marked, obvious, perspicuous, plain, pronounced), velkorysý (benevolent, big, broadminded, charitable, generous, gracious, high minded, liberal, noble-minded, ungrudging, unsparing), výrazný (bold, decided, distinct, distinctive, expressible, expressive, full-faced, marked, pronounced, significant), všeobecný (all around, all round, blanket, common, general, sweeping, universal), tolerantní (broadminded, easygoing, tolerant), prostitutka (call girl, prostitute, street walker, streetwalker), povšechný (general), jasný (bright, cheerful, clear, clear-cut, definite, distinct, fair, fresh, live, lucid, overt, pellucid, plain, radiant, serene, sheeny, shinny, straight, sunny, unambiguous, unequivocal, vivid), drsný (abrasive, coarse, crude, grating, gruff, harsh, heavy, inclement, intemperate, leathery, offhand, ragged, raucous, raw, rigorous, rough, ruddy, scabrous, severe, stark, unkind), coura (draggle-tail, scruff, slattern, tramp, trollop), široký (baggy, big, sweeping, wide), širý (expansive, open). (various references)

Danish

bred (bank, border, edge, shore). (various references)

Dutch

breed (wide), wijd (wide). (various references)

Esperanto

larĝa. (various references)

Faeroese

breiður, víður (extensive, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Farsi 

پهناور (Ample, Extensive, Immense, Vast, Wide), پهن (Abroad, Cachet, Flat, Large, Mulch, Plain, Wide), گشاد (Loose, Slack, Spacious, Wide), زن هرزه (Bitch, Jade, Tart, Trollop), عریض (Wide). (various references)

Finnish

leveä (wide). (various references)

French

large, grand, ample. (various references)

Frisian

breed, wiid. (various references)

German

breit (across, broadly, massive, sprawling, wide, widely), weit (a long way, afar, ample, away, big, by far, capacious, dilated, distant, elastic, extensive, far, far away, great, large, long, loose, loose-fitting, open, remote, remotely, roomy, spacious, vast, wide, widely), umfassend (blanket, capacious, complete, comprehensive, comprising, enfolding, explicitly, extended, extensive, full, global, omnibus, sweeping, thorough, wholesale, wide), deutlich (appreciable, articulate, articulately, bold, broadly, clear, clearly, conspicuous, decided, distinct, distinct (from), distinctly, explicit, explicitly, flat, lucid, manifest, marked, notedly, noticeable, noticeably, obvious, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plainly, pronounced). (various references)

Greek 

ευρύς. (various references)

Hawaiian

gjerë. (various references)

Hebrew 

רחב (spacious, wide), � רחב (ample, extensive, far reaching, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Hungarian

terjedelmes (ample, big, bulky, expanded, expansive, extensive, great, large, sizable, spacious, voluminous), tág (capacious, elastic, large, loose, slack, wide), széles (extensive, large, spacious, vast, wide, widish), átfogó (all round, all-in, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, hypotenuse, intensive, large, overall, panorama, roundabout). (various references)

Icelandic

víður (extensive, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Indonesian

bidang (area, plane, scope, sector, stretch), besar (august, big, fabulous, great, huge, large), lebar (amplitude, breadth, wide), kasar (abrupt, abusive, artless, blunt, boorish, brutal, brutish, crass, crude, curt, disrespectful, gruff, menial, raw, rude, unkind, vulgar), global (global, overall). (various references)

Irish

leathan. (various references)

Italian

largo (deep, extensive, large, largo, loose, loose-fitting, ready, wide), ampio (ample, full, large, loose, roomy, spacious, sweeping, vast, wide). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

露骨 (blunt, conspicuous, frank, open, outspoken, plain, suggestive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおざっぱ (rough, sketchy), おおまか (general, generous, rough), まる� し (bare, exposed, undisguised), かつぜ�" (all of a sudden, keen or piercing eye, spread out, the sound of striking something hard), ろ�"つ (blunt, conspicuous, frank, open, outspoken, plain, suggestive), ようよう (disposition, important matters, vast), はばひろい (extensive, wide), はばのひろい (wide), � いじょうてき (great). (various references)

Korean 

�"은. (various references)

Malay

luas. (various references)

Manx

lheanagh, lhean (extensive, flat of nose, full, full of chin, sheet, sweeping, wide), er lheead (in breadth, in width, wide). (various references)

Norwegian

bred. (various references)

Occitan

larg (wide). (various references)

Papiamen

anchu. (various references)

Pig Latin

oadbray.(various references)

Polish

szeroki. (various references)

Portuguese

largo (ample, bagging, baggy, flyaway, large, largo, plaza, public square, roomy, slip-on, square, wide), amplo (all-embracing, ample, bulky, commodious, extensive, full, large, loose, open, plump, roomy, spacious, vast, wide). (various references)

Romanian

larg (ample, broadly, comprehensive, extensive, full, large, loose, mighty, open-mindedly, roomy, space, spacious, spaciousness, vast, wide), absolut (absolute, absolutely, arbitrarily, be sure, blank, boundless, categorical, categorically, coercive, complete, completely, dead, downright, emphatic, entire, essential, finished, flat, inalienable, just, perfect, physically, positive, positively, precious, pure, sheer, simple, strict, sure, there's no doubt about it, thorough, thoroughly, total, unequivocal, unfailingly, unlimited, unmistakable, unmistakably, unqualified, unrestricted, utter), clar (apparent, apparently, articulate, banner, bright, clean, clear, clear-cut, clearly, comprehensible, decided, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicit, express, fair, flat, formal, Frank, incisive, legible, level headed, lightsome, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, obviously, palpable, patently, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plainly, precise, pure, serene, simple, sound, tangible, terse, unequivocal, unmistakable), complet (absolute, all out, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, every inch, exhaustive, fairly, flat, full, fully, good, hollow, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, unabridged, utter, utterly, whole), cuprinzãtor (ample, compendious, comprehensive, extensive, far reaching, inclusive, long range, open-mindedly, wide), damã (Dame, demimondaine, demi-rep, face card, lady, queen, tart, whore), deschis (above board, artless, avowedly, bald, baldly, barefaced, barely, blunt, direct, downright, flatly, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, guileless, light, naked, open, openly, outright, outspoken, overt, overtly, pale, patent, plainly, raw, round, roundly, sincere, Square, straight, straightforward, unfeigned, unreserved), evident (apparent, apparently, clear, conspicuous, evident, explicit, it must be, manifestly, marked, nakedly, obvious, obviously, palpable, patent, patently, plain, prominent, sightly, visible), extins (expansive, extensive), întins (even, expanse, expansion, expansive, extensive, flat, flatly, large, lengthy, mighty, open, outspread, prone, recumbent, smooth, spacious, sprawling, strained, stretched, supine, taut, tense, vast), grosolan (boorish, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), vulgar (base, churlish, coarse, common, gross, large, low, low-lived, unrefined, vile, vulgar, vulgarly), lat (flat, flatly, prone, Square, wide), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), principal (capital, Cardinal, chief, first, front, grand, head, high, leading, main, notional, premier, primal, prime, principal, staple), pronunţat (acute, marked, pronounced, strong, well-marked), senin (azure, calm, clear, cloudless, fair, fine, happy, mild, peace, serene, serenity, shiny, tranquil, unclouded, unruffled), spaţios (ample, commodious, large, roomy, spacious, wide), tolerant (latitudinarian, lenient, placable, tolerant), vast (ample, comprehensive, expansive, extensive, far reaching, large, measureless, spacious, vast, wide), general (all round, common, general, generic, grand, immanent, rife, universal, usual). (various references)

Russian 

широкий (catholic, ever-growing, far reaching, flyaway, general, large, loose, slip on, sweeping, wide). (various references)

Scottish

leathann. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upadljiv (conspicuous, marked, noticeable, prominent, showy, striking, tacky), prostran (capacious, commodious, extensive, rangy, spacious, vast), opšti (common, general, generic, overhead, public, universal), jasan (bright, clear, distinct, downright, manifest, obvious, perspicuous, plain, sharp cut, vivid), širok (extensive, full, loose, spacious, spreading, wide). (various references)

Spanish

ancho (breadth, capacious, deep, depth, extensive, Gage, gauge, loose, square shouldered, wide, width). (various references)

Sranan

bradi. (various references)

Swahili

-pana, pana. (various references)

Swedish

bred (sweeping, wide), utsträckt (extent, outstretched, prostrate, sprawled). (various references)

Thai

ผู้หญิง (คำสแลง) (gal), กว้างๆ, กว้างขวาง (extensive), ทั่วโลก, หยาบ (hackly, indelicate, raw, roughen, scabrous, tatty). (various references)

Turkish

bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), belli (apparent, avowed, broadly, certain, clear, conspicuous, explicit, express, given, known, manifest, noticeable, palpable, particular, patent, perspicuous, precise, precisely, prominent, self evident, shadowless, specific, stated, translucent, unmistakable, upfront, waisted, well-marked), yaygın (common, diffuse, diffusive, endemic, epidemic, epidemical, expansive, extensive, familiar, far flung, general, pandemic, pervasive, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife, wide, widespread), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), karı (bedfellow, Dame, dutch, Jane, old lady, old woman, spouse, the old woman, wife, woman), kadın (Dame, distaff, female, gyno-, gynous, hen, Jane, lady, lady's, petticoat, she, woman), hoşgörülü (Clement, complaisant, decent, forgiving, gentle, indulgent, lenient, patient, permissive, tolerant, wide open), geniş (ample, broadly, capacious, commodious, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmical, expansive, extended, extensive, full, large, obtuse, open, roomy, spacious, splay, vast, walk in, wide), genel (across the board, blanket, collective, common, exoteric, general, generic, grand, liberal, overhead, plenary, prevailing, prevalent, running, sweeping, widespread), göze çarpan (arresting, bold, conspicuous, crying, demonstrative, noticeable, ostensible, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, salient, sharp, signal, staring, visible), esas (authentic, basal, base, basic, basis, beginnings, central, constitutive, corner stone, element, elemental, essence, extract, footing, fortification, foundation, fundamental, guiding, heartbeat, intrinsic, main, master, nub, parent, pith, pith and marrow, pivotal, postulate, principal, principle, quiddity, radical, staple, substance, sum, the merits, the nub, ultimate, underlying), enli (broadly, wide, widely), ana (basic, capital, Cardinal, chief, fundamental, governing, grand, guiding, head, key, leading, main, main part, major, master, matron, mother, parent, predominant, primary, principal, principle, staple), aksanlı, açık (aboveground, apparent, articulate, avowed, bare, blank, candid, categorical, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, cloudless, confessed, decided, declared, decollete, deficiency, deficient, deficient amount, deficit, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, downright, evident, expansive, explicit, exposed, express, expressly, fair, forthright, free, gaping, hospitable, in blank, light, loose, lucent, lucid, luminous, obvious, open, open air, open ended, outdoor, outright, overt, pale, patent, perspicuous, plain, point blank, precise, raw, revealing, round, serene, shadowless, shirt-sleeve, shortage, shortfall, spread, Square, straightforward, swinging, translucent, unambiguous, unashamed, unclouded, uncomplicated, unconcealed, uncovered, uncrossed, undisguised, unequivocal, unlocked, unmistakable, unobstructed, unprotected, unsealed, upfront, vacant, visible, well-marked, wide open, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukrainian

явний (apparent, bald-faced, barefaced, blatant, declared, evident, Frank, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, overt, patent, perspicuous, pronounced, unequivocal, visible), цілком (absolutely, all, all in all, all of, all out, altogether, at all, bodily, clean, clear, completely, duly, en bloc, entirely, fairly, full, fully, hollow, nicely, outright, perfectly, pure, purely, quite, richly, soundly, thoroughly, well, wholly), широко (abroad, amply, broadly, extensively, loosely, open-mindedly, wide, widely), широка частина, широкий (ample, big, capacious, catholic, main, multitudinous, sweeping, vast, wide), грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), головний (arch-, basal, basic, capital, captain, cephalic, chief, governing, grand, head, leading, master, overriding, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, staple, star), вільно (at ease, easily, easy, fluently, free, freely, loose, loosely, naturally), вільний (devoid, disengaged, disposable, emancipated, exempt, fetterless, for hire, free, leisurely, licentious, loose, odd, off, open, out, quit, unbound), відкритий (barefaced, bleak, defenceless, defenseless, obvious, open, opened, open-hearted, overt, patulous, public, sightly, unclosed), просторий (acred, ample, capacious, commodious, expansive, extensive, far flung, loose, omnibus, rangy, space, spacious, wide), повний (absolute, all out, big, chock-a-block, complete, crass, definitive, entire, fatty, flush, full, integral, orbicular, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pudgy, pure, rotund, round, total, utter, whole), дівчинка (daughter, girl, lassie). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trở đi trở lại thì cũng vẫn thế thôi, tục tĩu khái quát đại cương, rõ r� ng thô tục, rộng bao la, rộng (ample, broadly, capacious, extensive, far-flung, large, splay, wide), phóng khoáng rõ, mênh mông rộng rãi, khoáng đạt (broadminded), gái điếm (drab, floozie, floozy, harlot, streetwalker, strumpet, wench), chung (common, communal, general, public, universal), chỗ rộng. (various references)

Welsh

bras (coarse, fat, luxuriant, rich), llydan (wide), eang (ample, immense, wide). (various references)

Zulu

-banzi. (various references)

phiale, platys. (various references)

latus. (various references)

brad. (various references)

blaf. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "broad": broadax, broadaxe, broadaxes, broadband, broadcast, broadcasted, broadcaster, broadcasters, broadcasting, broadcasts, broadcloth, broadcloths, broaden, broadened, broadening, broadens, broader, broadest, broadish, broadleaf, broadloom, broadlooms, broadly, broadness, broadnesses, broads, broadscale, broadsheet, broadsheets, broadside, broadsided, broadsides, broadsiding, broadsword, broadswords, broadtail, broadtails. (additional references)

Words ending with "broad": abroad, overbroad. (additional references)

Words containing "broad": nonbroadcast, nonbroadcasts, rebroadcast, rebroadcasting, rebroadcasts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Broad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aroad, barod, birrova, bload, boad, Boada, Boadu, boayd, boda, borda, Bordado, borid, Borooah, Borovac, bragad, braod, braow, broa, broab, broady, broaf, broag, broam, broan, broca, brod, Broda, brode, broir, Brokaj, brooa, Brorda, brou, broward, browd, browdy, Broxap, Broyd, brrod, Brua, bruad, bruid, Buroa, croad, froad, groad, obroad. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: board, dobra.

-1 letter: bard, boar, bora, brad, darb, drab, orad, road.

-2 letters: abo, ado, arb, bad, bar, boa, bod, bra, bro, dab, dor, oar, ora, orb, rad, rob, rod.

-3 letters: ab, ad, ar, ba, bo, do, od, or.

+1 letter: aboard, abroad, adsorb, boards, boyard, broads, byroad, dobras, forbad, roband.

+2 letters: aborted, adsorbs, ambroid, arbored, bandora, bandore, boarded, boarder, bodhran, bollard, bombard, borated, boyards, bradoon, bravado, bravoed, broadax, broaden, broader, broadly, brocade, byroads, cordoba, forbade, inboard, labored, labroid, onboard, proband, reboard, rhabdom, roadbed, robands, tabored.

+3 letters: abductor, abhorred, absorbed, adorable, adorably, adsorbed, adsorber, airbound, amberoid, ambroids, arboured, backdoor, backdrop, banderol, bandoras, bandores, baudrons, beadroll, beadwork, bearwood, becoward, blowhard, boarders, boarding, boardman, boardmen, boatyard, bodhrans, bollards, bombards, boneyard, bordeaux, boundary, boxboard, braconid, bradoons, bravados, breadbox, broached, broadaxe, broadens, broadest, broadish, brocaded, brocades, bromated, browband, carboyed, cordobas, cupboard, debonair, doorjamb, drawbore, forbidal, fordable, gabbroid, garboard, harbored, hardboot, inboards, keyboard, laboured, labrador, labroids, lapboard, larboard, leeboard, mopboard, nonbrand, obduracy, obdurate, oribatid, outboard, pegboard, probands, probated, rawboned, reboards, rhabdome, rhabdoms, roadbeds, seaboard, sowbread, taboured, tagboard, teaboard, wardrobe.