broadway

UK /ˈbɹɔdweɪ/ US /ˈbɹɔdweɪ/

name 5noun 3adj 2

Definitions

name

A street name, typically for a wide road: a specific broad way.

A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.

The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.

The theater district of Manhattan.

The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.

Coordinate term: off-Broadway

noun

The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.

adj

Flashy; showy.

Since he got the recording contract, he's gone all Broadway.

Of, or pertaining to, the cards that make up a Broadway straight.

Broadway connectors

Collocations

ADJ.

all, big, favorite, last, musical, right, whole

My favorite Broadway musical was Hamilton, which I saw three years ago.

VERB + BROADWAY

address, go, gone, making, opened, play, recommend

She opened a restaurant on Broadway and it became very successful.

BROADWAY + NOUN

avenue, connectors, datura, musicals, provenance, week

The Broadway musicals that opened last season attracted millions of theatergoers from around the world.

PREP.

despite, on, onto

Despite the high ticket prices, she decided to see a show on Broadway last summer.

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Coordinate term: off-Broadway

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Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.

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“King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, wher

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Since he got the recording contract, he's gone all Broadway.

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Broadway connectors

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Just above the doorway, which opened spang onto the broadway of Datura, a grinning face peered down upon the visitors, its eyes ruby-colored glass.

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Usage Notes

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