wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.-extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.-extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.-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.-comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.-plain; evident; as, a broad hint.-free; unrestrained; unconfined.-characterized by breadth. see breadth.-cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.-strongly marked; as, a broad scotch accent.-the broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.-the spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.-a lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.