broad

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /bɹɔːd/|/bɹoːd/    美 /bɹoːd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A prostitute, a woman of loose morals. US,dated
    — “Now we go up Bowery Street look at broads. Me pay.”
  2. A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. UK
  3. A woman or girl. US,colloquial,dated,slang,sometimes
    — They always hook you in the end, them broads. This whole trouble is on account of a dame reads a book.
  4. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
  5. A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. UK,historical
  6. A kind of floodlight.
    — […] fresnel spotlights, old-type broads, sky-pans, cone-lights, etc.
  7. A playing card. archaic,slang
    — 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, […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Wide in extent or scope.
    — three feet broad
  2. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
    — broad and open day
  3. Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
    — a broad mixture of falsehood
  4. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
    — The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.
  5. Plain; evident.
    — a broad hint
  6. General rather than specific.
    — to be in broad agreement
  7. Unsubtle; obvious.
    — Lee: I wrote that line for you. Maeve: A bit broad, if you ask me.
  8. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
    — as broad and general as the casing air
  9. Gross; coarse; indelicate. dated
    — a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humour
  10. Strongly regional.
    — She still has a broad Scottish accent, despite moving to California 20 years ago.
  11. Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

词形变化

broader comparative broadest superlative broads plural broads plural

词汇关系

反义词
thin narrow skinny all-encompassing slender
衍生词
Broadland broadsman Oulton Broad old broad
相关词
Bradford Bradley Bradshaw

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad, wide”), of uncertain origin.
Cognates
Cognate with Yola brode (“broad”), North Frisian bread, breeđ, briad, briid, briidj (“wide”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian breed (“broad, wide”), Bavarian brad, broad (“broad, wide”), Central Franconian and Luxembourgish breet (“broad, wide”), Dutch breed (“broad, wide”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Vilamovian braat (“broad, wide”), Yiddish ברייט (breyt, “broad, wide”), Danish and Swedish bred (“broad, wide”), Faroese and Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”), Norwegian Bokmål bred, brei (“broad, wide”), Norwegian Nynorsk brei, breid (“broad, wide”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs, “broad, wide”).
词源 2
Early 20th century, apparent phono-semantic matching of German Braut (“bride”, also “girlfriend”, and more generally “broad, young woman”).
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