Broadway
proper nounnounadjectivecommon in dialogue
- //ˈbɹɔdweɪ//
A street name, typically for a wide road: a specific broad way.
proper noun
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A street name, typically for a wide road: a specific broad way.
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A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
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The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
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The theater district of Manhattan.
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The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
Coordinate term: off-Broadway
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The American theater industry.
Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.
“King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction.
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The government of Manitoba (from the Legislative Building's address, on Broadway).
Angry city councillors lashed out against both Broadway and Ottawa on Wednesday, claiming the Doer government and the Harper Conservatives are spending millions on infrastructure projects Winnipeg doesn't want and not enough on road repairs the city needs.
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Two villages in England: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SP0937).
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Two villages in England: A village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3215).
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A hamlet in The Havens community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8713).
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A village in County Wexford, Ireland.
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A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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A settlement in the United States: A neighbourhood of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.
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A settlement in the United States: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey.
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A settlement in the United States: A town in Lee County, North Carolina.
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A settlement in the United States: An unincorporated community in Taylor Township, Union County, Ohio.
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A settlement in the United States: A town in Rockingham County, Virginia.
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A locality in the Upper Lachlan council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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A rare surname
Etymology
By surface analysis, a proprialization from broadway. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements, in common noun and proper noun forms, for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively. Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
noun
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slangThe highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.
adjective
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Flashy; showy.
Since he got the recording contract, he's gone all Broadway.
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slangOf, or pertaining to, the cards that make up a Broadway straight.
Broadway connectors
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