1. Adjective form
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
2. Adjective form
Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
3. Adjective form
Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
4. Adjective form
Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
5. Adjective form
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
6. Adjective form
Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
7. Adjective form
Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
8. Adjective form
Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
9. Adjective form
Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
10. Adjective form
Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
11. Noun
The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
12. Noun
The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
13. Noun
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
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