Broadname

• 1

  A surname.

broadadj詞源 1/bɹɔːd/

• 1

  Wide in extent or scope.

  • three feet broad
  • the broad expanse of ocean
• 2

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

  • broad and open day
  • crushing the minds of its victims in the broad and open day
• 3

  Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.

  • a broad mixture of falsehood
• 4

  Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

  • The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.
  • in a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way
• 5

  Plain; evident.

  • a broad hint
• 6

  General rather than specific.

  • to be in broad agreement
• 7

  communicationsjournalismliteratureUnsubtle; obvious.

  • Lee: I wrote that line for you. Maeve: A bit broad, if you ask me.
• 8

  Free; unrestrained; unconfined.

  • as broad and general as the casing air

broadnoun詞源 1/bɹɔːd/

• 1

  A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

• 2

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

• 3

  historicalA British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.

• 4

  broadcastingfilmmediaA kind of floodlight.

  • […] fresnel spotlights, old-type broads, sky-pans, cone-lights, etc.
  • Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]
• 5

  archaicslangA playing card.

  • I reckon as old Sol couldn't ha' lived without a pack of broads. If he couldn't find anybody to play with him, he'd play alone, […]

broadnoun詞源 2

• 1

  datedA prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

  • “Now we go up Bowery Street look at broads. Me pay.”
• 2

  datedslangA woman or girl.

  • They always hook you in the end, them broads. This whole trouble is on account of a dame reads a book.
  • Hey, man, Truck, you got to understand, she's a no class broad and you a gross son of a bitch. Naturally, she don't like you.