adjective. Wide in extent from side to side.

adjective. Large in expanse; spacious.

adjective. Having a certain width from side to side.

adjective. Full; open.

adjective. Covering a wide scope; general.

adjective. Liberal; tolerant.

adjective. Relating to or covering the main facts or the essential points.

adjective. Plain and clear; obvious.

adjective. Vulgar; ribald.

adjective. Strikingly regional or dialectal.

adjective. Pronounced with the tongue placed low and flat and with the oral cavity wide open, like the a in father.

noun. A wide flat part, as of one's hand.

noun. A woman or girl.

adverb. Fully; completely.

Broadly; openly; plainly.

Widely; copiously; abundantly.

Broadly; fully.

To make broad; spread.

Wide; having great breadth, as distinguished from length and thickness; used absolutely, having much width or breadth; not narrow: as, a strip no broader than one's hand; a broad river or street.

Large superficially; extensive; vast: as, the broad expanse of ocean.

Figuratively, not limited or narrow; liberal; comprehensive; enlarged: as, a man of broad views.

Specifically Inclined to the Broad Church, or to the views held by the Broad-Church party of the Church of England. See Episcopal.

Large in measure or degree; not small or slight; ample; consummate.

Widely diffused; open; full: as, in broad sunshine; broad daylight.

Unconfined; free; unrestrained.

Unrestrained by a sense of propriety or fitness; unpolished; loutish.

Unrestrained by considerations of decency; indelicate; indecent.

Unrestrained by fear or caution; bold; unreserved.

Characterized by a full, strong utterance; coarsely vigorous; not weak or slender in sound: as, broad Scotch; broad Doric; a broad vowel, such as ä or â or ō.

Plain; evident.

In the fine arts, characterized by breadth: as, a picture remarkable for the broad treatment of its subject. See breadth, 3.

noun. A shallow, fenny lake formed by the expansion of a river over adjacent flat land covered more or less with a reedy growth; a flooded fen, or lake in a fen: as, the Norfolk broads.

noun. In mech., a tool used for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders in the lathe.

noun. An English coin first issued in 1619 by James I., and worth at the time 20s. The coin was also issued subsequently. Also called laurel and broad-piece.

noun. The broad part of anything.

noun. The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.

noun. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

noun. A woman, especially one who is sexually promiscuous; -- usually considered offensive.

adjective. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow.

adjective. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast.

adjective. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

adjective. 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.

adjective. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

adjective. Plain; evident.

adjective. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

adjective. Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.

adjective. Cross; coarse; indelicate.

adjective. Strongly marked.

adjective. See under Acre.

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

"Accepting therefore the results of the two preceding chapters, that history (in the broad sense) is the study which best cultivates moral dispositions; secondly, that natural science furnishes the indispensable insight into the external world, man's physical environment; and, thirdly, that language, mathematics, and drawing are but the formal side and expression of the two realms of real knowledge, we have the _broad outlines_ of any true course of education."