broadcast

1. 1.

   message that is transmitted by radio or television

   Broadermessage

   Narrowerrebroadcastradio broadcastsimulcasttelecastnewscast
2. 2.

   a radio or television show

   “did you see his program last night?”

   Synonymsprogramprogramme

   Broadershow

   Narrowernews programreruntalk showtelevision programgame showserialepisodesustaining program

Other forms of broadcast

plural

broadcasts·

past tense

broadcasted·

present participle

broadcasting·

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.

Questions about broadcast

What does broadcast mean?

broadcast means "broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in broadcast?

broadcast has 2 syllables: broad-cast. The stress falls on "broad". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɔdˌkæst/.

What is another word for broadcast?

Close synonyms include air, send, beam, transmit, circulate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is broadcast a common word?

broadcast is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with broadcast?

14 words rhyme with broadcast. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.