How to use broad in a sentence Broad adjective (strong) if someone has a broad accent (= way of speaking), it is strong and noticeable, showing where they come from: (postpositive) from one side to the other Of great scope or potential That invention had broad applications You use broad to describe something that includes a large number of different things or people
A broad range of issues was discussed.a broad coalition of workers, peasants, students and middle class professionals. A broad joke (of a dialect or pronunciation) consisting of a large number of speech sounds characteristic of a particular geographical area Light bounced from large white surfaces (e.g., matte reflector boards, or a white ceiling). A broad notation is one which makes only the practically necessary distinctions of sound in each language, and makes them in the simplest manner possible, omitting all that is superfluous. The words deep and wide are common synonyms of broad While all three words mean having horizontal extent, broad is preferred when full horizontal extent is considered.
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