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People

* A slang term for a
woman A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...
. * Broad (surname), a surname


Places

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Broad Peak Broad Peak ( ur, ) is a mountain in the Karakoram on the border of Pakistan and China, the twelfth-highest mountain in the world at above sea level. It was first ascended in June 1957 by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, ...
, on the border between Pakistan and China, the 12th highest mountain on Earth *
The Broads The Broads (known for marketing purposes as The Broads National Park) is a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Although the terms "Norfolk Broads" and "Suffolk Broads" are correctly use ...
, a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, United Kingdom **The Broads include several areas of navigable water known as Broads; the largest is Hickling Broad (see :Norfolk Broads) * The Broads (New Hampshire), a wide portion of Lake Winnipesaukee in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States *
Broad Bay (disambiguation) Broad Bay may refer to the following locations: ;New Zealand *Broad Bay, New Zealand, a settlement and bay on the Otago Peninsula ;Norway *Broad Bay, the former name of Breibogen in Spitsbergen ("Breibogen" is the Norwegian translation of "Broad ...
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Broad Canal Broad Canal is a short canal in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, previously larger and part of the now-vanished canal system that made Cambridge an active seaport. The canal began in 1806 when Henry Hill, Rufus Davenport, and others laid out a can ...
, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States *
Broad Channel Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It occupies the southern portion of Rulers Bar Hassock (known colloquially as "Broad Channel Island"), the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay. Th ...
, a neighborhood in Queens, United States *
Broad Crag Broad Crag is a fell in the English Lake District. It is the fifth-highest peak in England at a height of . The mountain was gifted to the National Trust in 1923 by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club. The peak forms part of the Scafell chain, ...
, a fell in the English Lake District, United Kingdom *
Broad Creek (disambiguation) Broad Creek may refer to the following locations: Rivers *Broad Creek (Nanticoke River tributary), a stream in Sussex County, Delaware *Broad Creek (Bogue Sound), North Carolina, US *Broad Creek (South Australia), flows into Barker Inlet, South A ...
* Broad River (disambiguation) * Broad Run (disambiguation) * Broad Sound (disambiguation) *
Broad Valley Broad Valley () is a descriptive name for the broad glacier-filled valley on the south side of Laclavere Plateau, Trinity Peninsula. The name was suggested by V.I. Russell of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Sur ...
, Graham Land, Antarctica *
Broad Water Broad Water, or Broadwater (Welsh: ''Aber Dysynni'') is a salt water lagoon near Tywyn, Wales formed from the silted up estuary of the River Dysynni. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the estuary was used by the shipbuilding industry, ...
, a salt water lagoon near Tywyn, Wales, United Kingdom * Tixall Wide, also known as The Broad Water, a body of water in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom


Other uses

* Broad Avenue, a street and arts district in Memphis, Tennessee *
Broad Street (disambiguation) Broad Street may refer to: Nigeria * Broad Street, Lagos United Kingdom * Broad Street, Reading, Berkshire * Broad Street, Bristol * Broad Street, East Sussex, a location * Broad Street, Kent, in Hollingbourne, Maidstone * Broad Street, Lyming ...
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Broad Group Broad Group is a private manufacturer of central air conditioning non-electric absorption chillers that are powered by natural gas and waste heat based in Changsha, China. It is also the parent company of Broad Sustainable Building, a prefabricat ...
, a manufacturing company based in Changsha *
Broad (British coin) The Broad was an English coin worth 20 shillings (20/-) issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. It was a milled gold coin weighing 9.0–9.1 grams, with a diameter of 29 or 30 millimetres, designed by Thomas Simon (also called Symonds). ...
, an English gold coin minted under the Commonwealth *
Broad Institute The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (IPA: , pronunciation respelling: ), often referred to as the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The institu ...
, a genomic research institute * an 18th-century slang term for a
playing card A playing card is a piece of specially prepared card stock, heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic that is marked with distinguishing motifs. Often the front (face) and back of each card has a f ...
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The Broad The Broad () is a contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. The museum is named for philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, who financed the $140 million building that houses the Broad art collections. It offers free gener ...
, a modern art museum in Los Angeles, California *
The Broad (folk custom) __NOTOC__ The Broad was a folk custom found in the Cotswolds, an area of south-central England, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The tradition entails the use of a hobby horse with a bull's head that is mounted on a pole and ...
, a hooded-animal tradition in the Cotswolds, England


See also

* Broad gauge, rail gauge greater than the standard gauge of 4′ 8½″ * Broad church, Latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England *
Broad Front (disambiguation) Broad Front (which is the translation from Spanish of both ''Frente Grande'' and ''Frente Amplio'') may refer to: *Broad Front (Argentina), Argentine political party * Broad Front UNEN, Defunct Argentine political coalition * Broad Front (Chile), C ...
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Broad Wall (Jerusalem) The Broad Wall ( ''HaChoma HaRechava'') is an ancient defensive wall, located in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The wall was unearthed in the 1970s by Israeli archaeologist Nahman Avigad and dated to the reign of King Hezekiah (la ...
, an ancient defensive wall * Broad Dyke, built by the Dutch in 1655 in New Castle, Delaware {{disambiguation, geo