Definition of Broad

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Definition of Broad

Broad

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.

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Broad Quotations

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
Stephen Hawking

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
E. O. Wilson

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton

We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
George H. W. Bush

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
Paul Samuelson

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
Floyd Abrams

Broad Translations

broad in Danish is bred
broad in Dutch is breed, wijd
broad in French is large
broad in German is umfassend, deutliche, breit, deutlich
broad in Italian is largo
broad in Latin is latus, prolixus
broad in Norwegian is bred
broad in Portuguese is largo, amplo
broad in Spanish is ancho

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