Broad \Broad\ (br[add]d), a. [Compar. Broader
   (br[add]d"[~e]r); superl. Broadest.] [OE. brod, brad, AS.
   br[=a]d; akin to OS. br[=e]d, D. breed, G. breit, Icel.
   brei[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. bred, Goth. braids. Cf. Breadth.]
   1. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed
      to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch
      broad.
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   2. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad
      expanse of ocean.
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   3. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
      "Broad and open day." --Bp. Porteus.
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   4. 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.
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            A broad mixture of falsehood.         --Locke.
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   Note: Hence: 
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   5. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
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            The words in the Constitution are broad enough to
            include the case.                     --D. Daggett.
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            In a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way. --E.
                                                  Everett.
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   6. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
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   7. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
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            As broad and general as the casing air. --Shak.
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   8. (Fine Arts) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
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   9. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad
      joke; broad humor.
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   10. Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
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   Note: Broad is often used in compounds to signify wide,
         large, etc.; as, broad-chested, broad-shouldered,
         broad-spreading, broad-winged.
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   Broad acres. See under Acre.

   Broad arrow, originally a pheon. See Pheon, and Broad
      arrow under Arrow.

   As broad as long, having the length equal to the breadth;
      hence, the same one way as another; coming to the same
      result by different ways or processes.
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            It is as broad as long, whether they rise to others,
            or bring others down to them.         --L'Estrange.
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   Broad pennant. See under Pennant.
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   Syn: Wide; large; ample; expanded; spacious; roomy;
        extensive; vast; comprehensive; liberal.
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	Broad \Broad\, n.
   1. The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
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   2. The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded
      fen. [Local, Eng.] --Southey.
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   3. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of
      cylinders. --Knight.
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   4. A woman, especially one who is sexually promiscuous; --
      usually considered offensive. [slang]
      [PJC] broad-axe
      Broadaxe
      Broadax

	

	broad
    adj 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" [syn: wide, broad] [ant:
           narrow]
    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" [syn: across-the-
       board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive,
       blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive,
       panoptic, wide]
    3: not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines
       of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread" [syn: broad,
       unspecific]
    4: lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was
       time to leave" [syn: broad, unsubtle]
    5: being at a peak or culminating point; "broad daylight"; "full
       summer" [syn: broad(a), full(a)]
    6: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide
       plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: broad,
       spacious, wide]
    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"
       [syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant]
    n 1: slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a
         mean punch"

	

	389 Moby Thesaurus words for "broad":
   Jane, Jezebel, abstract, accented, aleatoric, aleatory, alveolar,
   amorphous, ample, amplitudinous, apical, apico-alveolar,
   apico-dental, approximate, articulated, artless, assimilated, babe,
   baby, back, bad woman, baggage, barytone, biddy, bilabial, bimbo,
   bird, bitch, bland, blobby, blue, bluff, blunt, blurred, blurry,
   bright, broad-based, broad-gauged, broad-minded, broad-shouldered,
   brusque, burlesque, cacuminal, candid, capacious, catholic,
   central, cerebral, chance, chancy, chaotic, checked, chick, chippy,
   clear, clitoromaniac, close, coarse, cocotte, collective, colleen,
   comic, comical, commodious, comprehensive, confused, consonant,
   consonantal, continuant, cookie, copious, cosmopolitan, cutie,
   dame, damoiselle, damsel, deep, demoiselle, dental, diffuse,
   direct, dirty, disordered, dissimilated, doll, dorsal, downright,
   drab, earthy, easy lay, easy woman, ecumenical, ecumenistic,
   emphatic, evident, expansive, explicit, extended, extending,
   extensive, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying,
   far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, farcical, featureless, filly,
   filthy, flat, floozy, foggy, forthright, frail, frail sister,
   frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken,
   free-tongued, front, full, fuzzy, gal, general, generalized,
   generic, generous, genuine, girl, girlie, glide, glossal, glottal,
   grisette, gross, gutter, guttural, hard, harridan, hazy,
   heart-to-heart, heavy, heifer, hen, high, hit-or-miss, hoyden,
   hussy, hysteromaniac, ill-defined, imprecise, improper, inaccurate,
   inchoate, inclusive, incoherent, indecent, indecisive, indefinable,
   indefinite, indelicate, indeterminable, indeterminate,
   indiscriminate, indistinct, inelegant, inexact, infinite,
   ingenuous, intonated, jade, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, labial,
   labiodental, labiovelar, large, large-scale, lascivious, lass,
   lassie, lateral, latitudinarian, lax, lewd, liberal, light,
   lingual, liquid, little missy, loose, loose woman, low,
   mademoiselle, maid, maiden, main, mid, minx, miss, missy,
   mock-heroic, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized,
   nebulous, neutral, noninsular, nonspecific, number, nymphet,
   nympho, nymphomaniac, obscene, obscure, obvious, occlusive,
   off color, open, openhearted, orderless, outspoken, oxytone,
   palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic,
   phonetic, phonic, pickup, piece, pitch, pitched, plain,
   plain-spoken, pornographic, posttonic, pronounced, quean, random,
   rank, raw, retroflex, romp, roomy, rough, round, rounded, rude,
   schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, semivowel, shadowed forth,
   shadowy, shapeless, sincere, skirt, slapstick, slip, slut, soft,
   sonant, spacious, spacious of mind, spread out, spreading,
   stochastic, stopped, straight, straight-out, straightforward,
   stressed, strong, strumpet, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen,
   subteener, surd, sweeping, syllabic, tart, teenybopper, tense,
   thick, throaty, titillating, tolerant, tomato, tomboy, tonal,
   tonic, tragicomic, transparent, trollop, trull, twangy, unaccented,
   unbigoted, uncharacterized, unchecked, unclear, unconcealed,
   unconstrained, uncouth, undefined, undestined, undetermined,
   undifferentiated, undisguised, unequivocal, unfanatical,
   ungentlemanly, unguarded, unhidebound, unladylike, unparochial,
   unplain, unprovincial, unrefined, unreserved, unrestrained,
   unrounded, unshaded, unspecific, unspecified, unstressed, unsubtle,
   uteromaniac, vague, vast, veiled, velar, virgin, vocalic, vocoid,
   voiced, voiceless, voluminous, vowel, vowellike, vulgar, wanton,
   weak, wench, wholesale, whore, wide, wide-banked, wide-bottomed,
   wide-branched, wide-breasted, wide-brimmed, wide-eared,
   wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-faced, wide-framed,
   wide-hipped, wide-leaved, wide-lipped, wide-minded, wide-nosed,
   wide-petaled, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-rimmed,
   wide-roving, wide-set, wide-spaced, wide-spanned, wide-streeted,
   wide-stretching, wide-tracked, wide-wayed, wide-winged, widespread,
   woman, young creature, young thing