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  1. adjective Wide in extent from side to side: a broad river; broad shoulders.
  2. adjective Large in expanse; spacious: a broad lawn.
  3. adjective Having a certain width from side to side: A sidewalk three feet broad.
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  • Viral infections don't respond to antibiotics, though, and there's no such thing as a broad-spectrum antiviral. —  Analog, March 2002
  • The men are tall, broad, and stalwart, with splendid black eyes, and limbs of iron. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • Her views on social questions especially were remarkably broad, and it may safely be said that there never was a woman who had less narrowness or bigotry in her composition. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • He was over six feet high and proportionately broad, and he brought the boat's stern too low down in the water, so Lord Elphinstone was re-installed, and my father most reluctantly had to content himself with the role of a spectator, in view of his age. —  The Days Before Yesterday
  • The belt was thick and broad, and at each end was a thick roll, the size of a man's thumb. —  078 - The Crimson Serpent
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English brod, from Old English brād.

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  1. = Scots braid; from Middle English brood, brod, from Anglo-Saxon brād = Old Saxon brēd = OFries. brēd = Dutch breed = Middle Low German brēd, Low German breed = Old High German Middle High German G. breit = Icelandic breidhr = Swedish Danish bred = Goth, braids, broad. Hence bread, breadth. The pron. would be reg. brōd (like goad, road, etc.).
  2. from Middle English broode, brode, from Anglo-Saxon brāde (= Middle High German brcite, German breit), broadly; from the adjective
 

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