Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
Use in sentences of BROAD
Meaning of BROAD in English
Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
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.
Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.