Definition of broad

"broad" in the noun sense

1. broad

slang term for a woman

"a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"

"broad" in the adjective sense

1. wide, broad

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. across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide

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. broad, unspecific

not detailed or specific

"a broad rule"

"the broad outlines of the plan"

"felt an unspecific dread"

4. broad, unsubtle

lacking subtlety obvious

"gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"

5. broad, full

being at a peak or culminating point

"broad daylight"

"full summer"

6. broad, spacious, wide

very large in expanse or scope

"a broad lawn"

"the wide plains"

"a spacious view"

"spacious skies"

7. broad

of speech) heavily and noticeably regional

"a broad southern accent"

8. broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant

showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

"a broad political stance"

"generous and broad sympathies"

"a liberal newspaper"

"tolerant of his opponent's opinions"

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Quotations for broad

'Tis noon - a calm, unbroken sleep
Is on the blue waves of the deep;
A soft haze, like a fairy dream,
Is floating over wood and stream;
And many a broad magnolia flower,
Within its shadowy woodland bower,
Is gleaming like a lovely star. [ George D. Prentice ]

It is even as broad as it is long. [ Proverb ]

Education should be as broad as man. [ Emerson ]

Quick believers need broad shoulders. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. [ Walt Whitman ]

A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought. [ William Shakespeare ]

Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!
In the soft light of these serenest skies;
From the broad highland region, black with pines,
Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise.
Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold
In rosy flushes on the virgin gold. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

The garden lies,
A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream. [ Tennyson ]

A broad hat does not always cover a venerable head. [ Proverb ]

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. [ Alexander Smith ]

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. [ Thoreau ]

Thought is like opium: it can intoxicate us while it leaves us broad awake. [ Amiel ]

You drink out of the broad end of the funnel, and hold the little one to me. [ Proverb ]

Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Both are merely poses. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

I will pick up a few straws here and there over the broad field, and ask you a few moments to look at them. [ Garfield ]

A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf. [ Trench ]

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories - the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt. [ James A. Garfield ]

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Glow-worms are the image of women: when they are in the dark, one is struck with their brilliancy; as soon as they appear in the broad light of the world, one sees them in their true colors, with all their defects. [ Mme. Necker ]

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and hollyhock. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

broad in Scrabble®

The word broad is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters broad:

BOARD
(33)
BROAD
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word broad

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In broad

BOARD
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DOBRA
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broad in Words With Friends™

The word broad is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters broad:

BOARD
(51)
BROAD
(51)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word broad

BROAD
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In broad

BOARD
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(51)
BRAD
(48)
DRAB
(48)
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(48)
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(45)
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Words within the letters of broad

2 letter words in broad (5 words)

3 letter words in broad (10 words)

4 letter words in broad (5 words)

5 letter words in broad (Anagrams) (3 words)

Word Growth involving broad

Shorter words in broad

ad road

Longer words containing broad

abroad ultrabroad

broadaxe

broadband nonbroadband

broadbills

broadcast broadcasted radiobroadcasted

broadcast broadcasted rebroadcasted

broadcast broadcasted unbroadcasted

broadcast broadcaster broadcasters radiobroadcasters

broadcast broadcaster radiobroadcaster radiobroadcasters

broadcast broadcasting radiobroadcasting

broadcast broadcasting rebroadcasting

broadcast broadcasts radiobroadcasts

broadcast broadcasts rebroadcasts

broadcast nonbroadcast

broadcast radiobroadcast radiobroadcasted

broadcast radiobroadcast radiobroadcaster radiobroadcasters

broadcast radiobroadcast radiobroadcasting

broadcast radiobroadcast radiobroadcasts

broadcast rebroadcast rebroadcasted

broadcast rebroadcast rebroadcasting

broadcast rebroadcast rebroadcasts

broadcloth broadcloths

broaden broadened rebroadened

broaden broadened unbroadened

broaden broadening rebroadening

broaden broadens rebroadens

broaden fibroadenoma fibroadenomas

broaden fibroadenoma fibroadenomata

broaden rebroaden rebroadened

broaden rebroaden rebroadening

broaden rebroaden rebroadens

broader

broadest

broadhearted broadheartedly

broadhearted broadheartedness

broadleaf

broadleaved

broadleaves

broadloom

broadly

broadminded broadmindedness

broadness

broads broadscale

broads broadsheet broadsheets

broads broadside broadsided

broads broadside broadsides

broads broadsiding

broads broadsword broadswords

broadway

fibroadipose