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People

* A slang term for a
woman A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or Adolescence, adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functi ...
. * Broad (surname), a surname


Places

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Broad Peak Broad Peak (; ) is one of the eight-thousanders, and is located in the Karakoram range spanning Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China. It is the 12th highest mountain in the world with elevation above sea level. The first ascent of t ...
, 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 used ...
, 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 Hickling Broad is a nature reserve 4 km south-east of Stalham, north-east of Norwich in Norfolk. It is managed by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. It is a National Nature Reserve and part of the Upper Thurne Broads and Marshes Site of Spec ...
(see :Norfolk Broads) *
The Broads (New Hampshire) Lake Winnipesaukee () is the largest lake in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, located in the Lakes Region at the foothills of the White Mountains. It is approximately long (northwest-southeast) and from wide (northeast-southwest), covering & ...
, 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 B ...
* Broad Canal, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States * Broad Channel, a neighborhood in Queens, United States * Broad Crag, 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 Au ...
* Broad River (disambiguation) *
Broad Run (disambiguation) Broad Run may refer to a place in the United States: ;Streams *Broad Run (Little Muncy Creek), in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania *Broad Run (Loudoun County, Virginia), a tributary of the Potomac River *Broad Run (Maryland), a tributary of the Potoma ...
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Broad Sound (disambiguation) Broad Sound can refer to: * Broad Sound (Queensland), on the Australian coast * Broad Sound (Maine), near Portland, Maine, United States * Broad Sound (Massachusetts), near Boston, Massachusetts, United States {{geodis ...
* Broad Valley, 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 indust ...
, 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 or Broadstreet may refer to: Places and streets *Broad Street Historic District (disambiguation) Nigeria * Broad Street, Lagos United Kingdom *Broad Street, Reading, Berkshire *Broad Street, Bristol *Broad Street, East Sussex, a ...
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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 prefab bu ...
, a manufacturing company based in Changsha *
Broad (British coin) The Broad was an English coin worth 20 shillings (one pound sterling) issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. It was a milled gold coin weighing 9.0–9.1 grams (  troy ounce), with a diameter of , designed by Thomas Simon (also ca ...
, 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 (Los Angeles), Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles. The museum is named for philanthropists Eli Broad, Eli and Edythe Broad, who financed the $140 million building that houses the Broad ...
, 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

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Broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...
, rail gauge greater than the standard gauge of 4′ 8½″ *
Broad church Broad church is latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England in particular and Anglicanism in general, meaning that the church permits a broad range of opinion on various issues of Anglican doctrine. In the American Episcopal Churc ...
, 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 (Chilean ...
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Broad Wall (Jerusalem) The Broad Wall () 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. Originally dated to the reign of King Hezekiah (late 8th cent ...
, an ancient defensive wall *
Broad Dyke Broad Dyke, originally called Horse Dyke is an original dyke built on the Northern bank of the Delaware River by the Dutch in 1655 in New Castle, Delaware. This 60 acre property is the center of a twelve-mile circle that form the arc of the borde ...
, built by the Dutch in 1655 in New Castle, Delaware {{disambiguation, geo