broad

Plural: broads

Noun

• A wide expanse of water, especially a river or lake.
• slang term for a woman
  • "a broad is a woman who can throw a mean punch"
• A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
• A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
• A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
• A kind of floodlight.
• A playing card.
• A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
• A woman or girl.

Adjective

• Extensive in scope or wide from side to side.
• having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
  • "a river two miles broad"
  • "broad shoulders"
  • "a broad river"

Adjective Satellite

• broad in scope or content; ; ; ; ; - T.G.Winner
  • "an invention with broad applications"
• not detailed or specific
  • "a broad rule"
  • "the broad outlines of the plan"
• lacking subtlety; obvious
  • "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave"
• being at a peak or culminating point
  • "broad daylight"
• very large in expanse or scope
  • "a broad lawn"
• (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
  • "a broad southern accent"
• showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
  • "a broad political stance"
  • "generous and broad sympathies"

Adj

• Wide in extent or scope.
• Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
• Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
• Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
• Plain; evident.
• General rather than specific.
• Unsubtle; obvious.
• Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
• Gross; coarse; indelicate.
• Strongly regional.
• Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Examples

• a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humour
• a broad hint
• He strategically used the word BROAD to open up the board for future plays.
• His broad understanding of the dictionary allowed him to see many word possibilities.
• She still has a broad Scottish accent, despite moving to California 20 years ago.
• the broad expanse of ocean
• three feet broad
• to be in broad agreement

Synonyms

across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, full, large-minded, liberal, panoptic, spacious, tolerant, unspecific, unsubtle, wide, 'ho, Bankside lady, Covent Garden nun, Dutch widow, Fulham virgin, GRO, Haymarket ware, Japayuki-san, KTV girl, Paphian, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, abandons, alley cat, almah, babe, baggage, bangtail, bargirl, bat, beotch, bim, bint, bird, bitch, blone, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, cake, calico queen, callet, cat, chick, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cocotte, colleen, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, covess, creature of the night, croshabell, cutty, dame, damoiselle, damsel, daughter of joy, dollymop, donna, doxy, drab, elrig, escort, feme, femme, femoid, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail, frail sister, frau, frow, gal, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gel, gentlelady, gill, gillian, ginch, girl, girl rented overnight, girlie, girly, good-time girl, grill, hackney, harlot, hen, hireling, ho, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hottie, hustler, huwoman, jay, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, lass, lassie, lightskirt, little girl, loose woman, lot lizard, maggie, maid, maid child, maiden, maness, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, minoress, minx, miss, missy, mob, moggy, moll, mort, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, mulier, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, painted lady, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, placket, poppet, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, puss, pussy, pussygirl, put, puta, quail, quean, queen, quene, quiff, ribibe, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, she, sheila, skainsmate, skirt, skivvy, slag, slapper, slit, slut, sodomitess, soiled dove, squaw, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, twist, tía, vaginoid, vice girl, wan, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, wife, wimmin, woman, woman child, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, wommon, womon, womxn, womyn, working girl

Antonyms

narrow, all-encompassing, comprehensive, skinny, slender, thin

Related Words

Bradford, Bradley, Bradshaw

Anagrams of broad