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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A sword with a wide, usually two-edged blade that is designed for slashing rather than thrusting.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A sword with a broad blade, as distinguished from one with a narrow blade or from a three-sided thrusting-sword; a sword of which the edge as well as the point is used. All forms of sword which have a flat blade for cutting are called broadswords, in contrast to swords used for thrusting alone. See claymore.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A type of sword, usually a longsword, that has a broad cutting blade that does blunt damage as well as cutting damage. They were the pinnacle of medieval European sword technology.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab

Etymologies

  1. From broad +‎ sword (Wiktionary)

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  • Louises The blade, a brilliant broadsword, swung - with a sound like a wet branch snapping - through Ellis's neck. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
    Mar 28, 2012

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