broad

See also Broad.

English

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Etymology

From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), 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 bred (“broad”), Swedish bred (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -ɔːd

Adjective

broad (comparative broader, superlative broadest)

1. (of a person or object) Wide in extent or scope.
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     Julia Farrington, head of arts at Index on Censorship, argues that extra powers to ban violent videos online will "end up too broad and open to misapplication, which would damage freedom of expression".

2. Having a specified width (e.g. 3 ft broad).
3. (of an accent) Strongly regional.
4. (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Antonyms

• (Regarding occupied space,width of an object): thin, narrow
• (Regarding body width): skinny
• (Not palatalized): slender

Derived terms

Terms derived from broad (adjective)

breadth broaden broad across the beam broad in the beam

broadscale broad strokes broadsword broad church

broadcloth broad agreement

Translations

wide — see wide

having a specified width

• Bulgarian: широк (bg) (širok)
• Czech: široký (cs) m
• Dutch: breed (nl)
• Finnish: leveä (fi)
• French: large (fr)
• German: breit (de)
• Japanese: 幅が…ある (はばが…ある, haba ga … aru)

• Korean: 폭이 …인 (幅이 …인, pogi …in)
• Macedonian: широк (mk) (šírok) m
• Portuguese: largo (pt)
• Russian: в ширину (ru) (v širinú)
• Scottish Gaelic: a leud (gd)
• Swedish: bred (sv)

strongly regional

• Finnish: leveä (fi)
• French: fort (fr)
• Japanese: 訛り丸出しの (なまりまるだしの, namari marudashi no)

• Korean: 강한 (ko) (强한, ganghan), 노골적인 (ko) (露骨的인, nogoljeogin)
• Swedish: bred (sv)

Noun

broad (plural broads)

1. (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
2. (US) A woman or girl.

   Who was that broad I saw you with?

3. (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
4. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

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Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:prostitute
• See also Wikisaurus:woman
• See also Wikisaurus:girl

Translations

whore — see whore

colloquial term for a woman or girl

• Finnish: lyyli (fi)
• French: gonzesse (fr) f, meuf (fr) f
• German: Weib (de) n, Braut (de) f
• Japanese: 女 (ja) (おんな, onna), 助 (ja) (すけ, suke)

• Korean: 계집애 (ko) (gyejibae), 여자 (ko) (女子, yeoja)
• Russian: девка (ru) (dévka) f, баба (ru) (bába) f
• Swedish: tjej (sv) c

See also

• Appendix:Word formation verb -en noun -ness

Anagrams

• abord
• board
• dobra, Dobra

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Breton

Noun 1

broad m

1. person from a country

Noun 2

broad f

1. nation

Derived terms

• broadel