Crossword-Solution: BROAD 5 letters, 161 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Broad	superl.	Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
Broad	superl.	Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
Broad	superl.	Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
Broad	superl.	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.
Broad	superl.	Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
Broad	superl.	Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
Broad	superl.	Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
Broad	superl.	Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
Broad	superl.	Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
Broad	superl.	Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
Broad	n.	The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
Broad	n.	The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
Broad	n.	A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BROAD	anagram	ABORD, BARDO, BOARD, BORDA, BRODA, DOBRA, DORAB, DORBA, ORBAD, ROADB

We have 161 clues for the answer “BROAD”

Clue	Answers
"___ City" (Comedy Central show starring Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson)	1 answer
A bit coarse, as humor	1 answer
Expansive in scope or width	1 answer
Beginning for "sword" or "way"	1 answer
Bette Midler's "A View From a _____"	1 answer
Covering a wide scope	1 answer
Covering many subjects	1 answer
Downtown N.Y. street	1 answer
Far from narrow	1 answer
Grand, as some staircases	1 answer
In __ daylight	1 answer
Kind of ax or cloth	1 answer
Kind of daylight?	1 answer
Laterally extensive	1 answer
Like E.M.K.'s "A"	1 answer
Like Sancho Panza's back.	1 answer
Like a Bostonian's A	1 answer
Like a liberal arts curriculum	1 answer
Like a liberal arts education	1 answer
Like a polymath's knowledge	1 answer
Like a river at its mouth, not at its head	1 answer
Like a sombrero's brim	1 answer
Like dales, but not glens	1 answer
Like daylight?	1 answer
Like some shoulders	1 answer
Not restrictive in scope	1 answer
Of goodly girth	1 answer
Overarching	1 answer
Penpoint style	1 answer
Plain or clear, as a hint.	1 answer
Thick loaf?	1 answer
Wide side to side	1 answer
Wide, as a street	1 answer
Wide, spacious	1 answer
Word with bill or tail.	1 answer
Word with cast or side	1 answer
Word with shouldered or minded	1 answer
__-minded (liberal)	1 answer
___-minded (tolerant)	1 answer
having a distance larger than usual from side to side	1 answer
having a distance larger than usual side to side	1 answer
{/___ City/} (Comedy Central series following the misadventures of Abbi and Ilana)	1 answer
Epic in scope	2 answers
Like a summary	2 answers
American woman	2 answers
Extensive in scope	2 answers
Like some hints	2 answers
PROSTITUTE (sl.)	2 answers
TABULAR surface	2 answers
WENCH (sl.)	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AEERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BROAD (5)

The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a broad brim.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Now their broad black beaks they lifted, Now they plunged beneath the water, Now they darkened in the shadow, Now they brightened in the sunshine.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

But let us now, as in bad plight, devise What best may for the present serve to hide The Parts of each from other, that seem most To shame obnoxious, and unseemliest seen, Some Tree whose broad smooth Leaves together sowd, And girded on our loyns, may cover round Those middle parts, that this new commer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

High Church, Low Church, Broad Church, Free Church; ultramontanism[obs3]; papism, papistry; monkery[obs3]; papacy; Anglicanism, Catholicism, Romanism; popery, Scarlet Lady, Church of Rome, Greek Church.

Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991

Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay, whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Quotes with BROAD (3)

So it's true what they say about warlocks, then?" true?". "You can't be rude to everyone who talks to me." Alec made a wide, sweeping gesture. "And why not? Cramping your style, am I? I mean, maybe you were hoping to flirt with werewolf boy here. He's pretty attractive, if you like the messy-haired, broad-shouldered, chiseled-good-looks type.""Hey, now," said Jordan mildly. Magnus put his head in his hands. into?""Mermaids," said Magnus into his fingers. "They always smell li…

Cassandra Clare City of Fallen Angels

LADY LAZARUSI have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it--A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin O my enemy. Do I terrify?--The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day. Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. Th…

Sylvia Plath Ariel

In these days, when there is a tendency to specialize so closely, it is well for us to be reminded that the possibilities of being at once broad and deep did not pass with Leonardo da Vinci or even Benjamin Franklin.

Jimmy Soni A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 139 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).