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say it: brawd
broad is an adjective and noun meaning "having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other". It is pronounced /ˈbɹɔd/ — brawd. It carries 9 recorded senses.
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
“wide roads”
“a wide necktie”
“wide margins”
“three feet wide”
“a river two miles broad”
“broad shoulders”
“a broad river”
broad in scope or content
“across-the-board pay increases”
“an all-embracing definition”
“blanket sanctions against human-rights violators”
“an invention with broad applications”
“a panoptic study of Soviet nationality”
“granted him wide powers”
not detailed or specific
“a broad rule”
“the broad outlines of the plan”
“felt an unspecific dread”
showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
“a broad political stance”
“generous and broad sympathies”
“a liberal newspaper”
“tolerant of his opponent's opinions”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for broad come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.