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Grammar : Adj
Spell : brawd
Phonetic Transcription : brɔd

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Définition of broadest

Origin :
  • Old English brad "broad, flat, open, extended," from Proto-Germanic *braithaz (cf. Old Frisian bred, Old Norse breiðr, Dutch breed, German breit, Gothic brouþs), of unknown origin. Not found outside Germanic languages. No clear distinction in sense from wide. Related: Broadly. Broad-brim as a style of hat (1680s, broad-brimmed) in 18c.-19c. suggested "Quaker male" from their characteristic attire.
  • adj wide physically
  • adj extensive
  • adj full, obvious
  • adj liberal-minded
  • adj vulgar
Example sentences :
  • It is national in the broadest sense of the term, and primative and forcible to intensity.
  • Extract from : « Ridgeway » by Scian Dubh
  • Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • He prided himself on being able to speak the broadest of the dialect.
  • Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald
  • They were, one and all, from the broadest and best to the narrowest and least frequented, very dark.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • There, on one of the broadest tombstones she saw sitting a circle of lamias.
  • Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various
  • No cragsman in broadest daylight could do such a thing, he asserted.
  • Extract from : « Red Cap Tales » by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
  • But the hospital, of course, is managed on the broadest lines.
  • Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton
  • The river was a noble one; the broadest that I had hitherto seen.
  • Extract from : « Lavengro » by George Borrow
  • It is a work of broadest humanity, of most fanatical bigotry.
  • Extract from : « Rabbi and Priest » by Milton Goldsmith
  • Philanthropy is not love for one's fellow-man in the broadest sense.
  • Extract from : « Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience » by Henry David Thoreau

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