Broad: Definition and part of speech

Broad

  1. n. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
  2. superl. Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; — opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
  3. superl. Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
  4. superl. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
  5. superl. 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.
  6. superl. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
  7. superl. Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
  8. superl. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
  9. superl. Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
  10. superl. Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
  11. 1n. 1 A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
  12. 1superl. 1 Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; — opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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