Usually means: Wide in extent or scope.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word broad:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Broad, broad: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. broad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. broad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. broad: Collins English Dictionary
  5. broad: Vocabulary.com
  6. Broad, broad: Wordnik
  7. broad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Broad, broad: Wiktionary
  9. broad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. broad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. broad: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Broad, broad: Dictionary.com
  13. broad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. broad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Broad (English gold coin), Broad (surname), Broad, The Broad (folk custom), The Broad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Broad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. broad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. broad: Rhymezone
  19. broad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. broad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. broad: Free Dictionary
  22. broad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. broad: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. broad: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. broad: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. broad: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. broad: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. broad: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. broad, broad, broad, broad: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Broad: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Wide in extent or scope.
adjective:  Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
adjective:  Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
adjective:  Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
adjective:  Plain; evident.
adjective:  General rather than specific.
adjective:  (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
adjective:  Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
adjective:  (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.
adjective:  (of an accent) Strongly regional.
adjective:  (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
noun:  (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
noun:  A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
noun:  (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
noun:  (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A playing card.
noun:  (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
noun:  (US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated) A woman or girl.
noun:  A surname.

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