[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

broad \broad\ braddd, a. compar. broader
   braddd"~er; superl. broadest. oe. brod, brad, as.
   br=ad; akin to os. br=ed, d. breed, g. breit, icel.
   breiethr, sw.  dan. bred, goth. braids. cf. breadth.
   1. wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed
      to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch
      broad.
      1913 webster

   2. extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad
      expanse of ocean.
      1913 webster

   3. extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
      "broad and open day." --bp. porteus.
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   4. fig.: having a large measure of any thing or quality; not
      limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and
      retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the
      precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
      1913 webster

            a broad mixture of falsehood.         --locke.
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   note: hence: 
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   5. comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
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            the words in the constitution are broad enough to
            include the case.                     --d. daggett.
      1913 webster

            in a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way. --e.
                                                  everett.
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   6. plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
      1913 webster

   7. free; unrestrained; unconfined.
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            as broad and general as the casing air. --shak.
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   8. fine arts characterized by breadth. see breadth.
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   9. cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad
      joke; broad humor.
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   10. strongly marked; as, a broad scotch accent.
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   note: broad is often used in compounds to signify wide,
         large, etc.; as, broad-chested, broad-shouldered,
         broad-spreading, broad-winged.
         1913 webster

   broad acres. see under acre.

   broad arrow, originally a pheon. see pheon, and broad
      arrow under arrow.

   as broad as long, having the length equal to the breadth;
      hence, the same one way as another; coming to the same
      result by different ways or processes.
      1913 webster

            it is as broad as long, whether they rise to others,
            or bring others down to them.         --l'estrange.
      1913 webster

   broad pennant. see under pennant.
      1913 webster

   syn: wide; large; ample; expanded; spacious; roomy;
        extensive; vast; comprehensive; liberal.
        1913 webster
see also:
broader broadest breadth narrow broad acres acre 
broad arrow pheon broad arrow arrow as broad as long 
broad pennant pennant 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

broad \broad\, n.
   1. the broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
      1913 webster

   2. the spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded
      fen. local, eng. --southey.
      1913 webster

   3. a lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of
      cylinders. --knight.
      1913 webster

   4. a woman, especially one who is sexually promiscuous; --
      usually considered offensive. slang
      pjc broad-axe
      broadaxe
      broadax

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

broad
     adj 1: 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" syn: wide ant: narrow
     2: 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"-
        t.g.winner; "granted him wide powers" syn: across-the-board,
         all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanketa,
         encompassing, panoptic, wide
     3: not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad
        outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread" syn: unspecific
     4: lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was
        time to leave" syn: unsubtle
     5: being at a peak or culminating point; "broad day"; "full
        summer"; "high noon" syn: broada, fulla
     6: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide
        plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" syn: spacious,
         wide
     7: of speech heavily and noticeably regional; "a broad
        southern accent"
     8: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad
        political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a
        liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
        syn: large-minded, liberal, tolerant
     n : slang term for a woman; "a broad is a woman who can throw a
         mean punch"
see also:
wide narrow across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive 
blanketa encompassing panoptic unspecific unsubtle 
broada fulla spacious large-minded liberal 
tolerant 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

389 moby thesaurus words for "broad":
   jane, jezebel, abstract, accented, aleatoric, aleatory, alveolar,
   amorphous, ample, amplitudinous, apical, apico-alveolar,
   apico-dental, approximate, articulated, artless, assimilated, babe,
   baby, back, bad woman, baggage, barytone, biddy, bilabial, bimbo,
   bird, bitch, bland, blobby, blue, bluff, blunt, blurred, blurry,
   bright, broad-based, broad-gauged, broad-minded, broad-shouldered,
   brusque, burlesque, cacuminal, candid, capacious, catholic,
   central, cerebral, chance, chancy, chaotic, checked, chick, chippy,
   clear, clitoromaniac, close, coarse, cocotte, collective, colleen,
   comic, comical, commodious, comprehensive, confused, consonant,
   consonantal, continuant, cookie, copious, cosmopolitan, cutie,
   dame, damoiselle, damsel, deep, demoiselle, dental, diffuse,
   direct, dirty, disordered, dissimilated, doll, dorsal, downright,
   drab, earthy, easy lay, easy woman, ecumenical, ecumenistic,
   emphatic, evident, expansive, explicit, extended, extending,
   extensive, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung, far-flying,
   far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, farcical, featureless, filly,
   filthy, flat, floozy, foggy, forthright, frail, frail sister,
   frank, frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken,
   free-tongued, front, full, fuzzy, gal, general, generalized,
   generic, generous, genuine, girl, girlie, glide, glossal, glottal,
   grisette, gross, gutter, guttural, hard, harridan, hazy,
   heart-to-heart, heavy, heifer, hen, high, hit-or-miss, hoyden,
   hussy, hysteromaniac, ill-defined, imprecise, improper, inaccurate,
   inchoate, inclusive, incoherent, indecent, indecisive, indefinable,
   indefinite, indelicate, indeterminable, indeterminate,
   indiscriminate, indistinct, inelegant, inexact, infinite,
   ingenuous, intonated, jade, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, labial,
   labiodental, labiovelar, large, large-scale, lascivious, lass,
   lassie, lateral, latitudinarian, lax, lewd, liberal, light,
   lingual, liquid, little missy, loose, loose woman, low,
   mademoiselle, maid, maiden, main, mid, minx, miss, missy,
   mock-heroic, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized,
   nebulous, neutral, noninsular, nonspecific, number, nymphet,
   nympho, nymphomaniac, obscene, obscure, obvious, occlusive,
   off color, open, openhearted, orderless, outspoken, oxytone,
   palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic,
   phonetic, phonic, pickup, piece, pitch, pitched, plain,
   plain-spoken, pornographic, posttonic, pronounced, quean, random,
   rank, raw, retroflex, romp, roomy, rough, round, rounded, rude,
   schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, semivowel, shadowed forth,
   shadowy, shapeless, sincere, skirt, slapstick, slip, slut, soft,
   sonant, spacious, spacious of mind, spread out, spreading,
   stochastic, stopped, straight, straight-out, straightforward,
   stressed, strong, strumpet, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen,
   subteener, surd, sweeping, syllabic, tart, teenybopper, tense,
   thick, throaty, titillating, tolerant, tomato, tomboy, tonal,
   tonic, tragicomic, transparent, trollop, trull, twangy, unaccented,
   unbigoted, uncharacterized, unchecked, unclear, unconcealed,
   unconstrained, uncouth, undefined, undestined, undetermined,
   undifferentiated, undisguised, unequivocal, unfanatical,
   ungentlemanly, unguarded, unhidebound, unladylike, unparochial,
   unplain, unprovincial, unrefined, unreserved, unrestrained,
   unrounded, unshaded, unspecific, unspecified, unstressed, unsubtle,
   uteromaniac, vague, vast, veiled, velar, virgin, vocalic, vocoid,
   voiced, voiceless, voluminous, vowel, vowellike, vulgar, wanton,
   weak, wench, wholesale, whore, wide, wide-banked, wide-bottomed,
   wide-branched, wide-breasted, wide-brimmed, wide-eared,
   wide-extended, wide-extending, wide-faced, wide-framed,
   wide-hipped, wide-leaved, wide-lipped, wide-minded, wide-nosed,
   wide-petaled, wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-rimmed,
   wide-roving, wide-set, wide-spaced, wide-spanned, wide-streeted,
   wide-stretching, wide-tracked, wide-wayed, wide-winged, widespread,
   woman, young creature, young thing

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