Definition of BROAD

broad

Meanings

Plural: broads

Noun

  • 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

  • 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.

Origin / Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Scots braid (“broad”), West Frisian breed (“broad”), Saterland Frisian breed (“broad”), Low German breed (“broad”), breet, Dutch breed (“broad”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål bred (“broad”), Norwegian brei (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).

Synonyms

'ho, abandons, across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, alley cat, almah, babe, baggage, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, bim, bint, bird, bitch, blanket, 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, Covent Garden nun, covess, creature of the night, croshabell, cutty, dame, damoiselle, damsel, daughter of joy, dollymop, donna, doxy, drab, Dutch widow, elrig, encompassing, escort, extensive, feme, femme, femoid, fille de joie, flap, floozie, fornicatrix, frail, frail sister, frau, frow, Fulham virgin, full, gal, gamester, gay lady, geebag, gel, gentlelady, gill, gillian, ginch, girl, girl rented overnight, girlie, girly, good-time girl, grill, GRO, hackney, harlot, Haymarket ware, hen, hireling, ho, hoe, hoer, hook, hooker, hottie, hustler, huwoman, Japayuki-san, jay, karayuki-san, KTV girl, laced mutton, lady, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, large-minded, lass, lassie, liberal, 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, panoptic, Paphian, 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, spacious, squaw, stem siren, stew, street taco, strumpet, succubus, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, tart, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tolerant, tom, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, twist, tía, unspecific, unsubtle, vaginoid, vice girl, wan, wanton, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, wide, 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

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

Scrabble Score: 8

broad is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
broad is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
broad is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

broad is a valid Words With Friends word