broad

Wide in extent or scope.

three feet broad

the broad expanse of ocean

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.

broad and open day

crushing the minds of its victims in the broad and open day

Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.

a broad mixture of falsehood

Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.

The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.

in a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way

Plain; evident.

a broad hint

A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.

A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.

A kind of floodlight.

[…] fresnel spotlights, old-type broads, sky-pans, cone-lights, etc.

Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]

A playing card.

I reckon as old Sol couldn't ha' lived without a pack of broads. If he couldn't find anybody to play with him, he'd play alone, […]

A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.

“Now we go up Bowery Street look at broads. Me pay.”

A woman or girl.

They always hook you in the end, them broads. This whole trouble is on account of a dame reads a book.

Hey, man, Truck, you got to understand, she's a no class broad and you a gross son of a bitch. Naturally, she don't like you.