Broadness
the state or character of being broad:
the broadness of the ship; the broadness of his jokes.
Historical Examples
The Kempton-Wace Letters Jack London
Gospel Doctrine Joseph F. Smith
Strangers and Wayfarers Sarah Orne Jewett
Flappers and Philosophers F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis De Tocqueville
A Racial Study of the Fijians Norman E. Gabel
The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (First Volume–1895-1899) Leo Tolstoi
Why do we need a public library? Various
My Double Life Sarah Bernhardt
The Blue Wall Richard Washburn Child
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The, (used with a plural verb) a low-lying region in E England, in Norfolk and Suffolk: bogs and marshy lakes. of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across. measured from side to side: The desk was three feet broad. of great extent; large: the broad expanse of ocean. widely diffused; open; full: […]
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a wedge-shaped spike for securing an end of a timber butting against the side of another. Historical Examples Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
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the region in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels where everything was of enormous size. Historical Examples Chimney-Pot Papers Charles S. Brooks The Parent’s Assistant Maria Edgeworth Swift Leslie Stephen Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. John Uri Lloyd White Lies Charles Reade Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Swift Leslie Stephen […]
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of huge size; gigantic; tremendous. an inhabitant of Brobdingnag. a being of tremendous size; giant. Historical Examples The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory Europe After 8:15 H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, June 20, 1891 Various Clarence Bret Harte Eye Spy William Hamilton Gibson […]