broadway
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- An esplanade.
- A straight from ace to ten in Texas hold 'em.
- The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.
Proper noun
- A street name, typically for a wide road; a broad way.
- A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
- The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
- The theater district of Manhattan.
- The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
- The American theater industry.
- The government of Manitoba (from the Legislative Building's address, on Broadway).
- Two villages in England: A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SP0937).
- Two villages in England: A village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3215).
- A hamlet in The Havens community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8713).
- A village in County Wexford, Ireland.
- A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A settlement in the United States: A neighbourhood of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.
- A settlement in the United States: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey.
- A settlement in the United States: A town in Lee County, North Carolina.
- A settlement in the United States: An unincorporated community in Taylor Township, Union County, Ohio.
- A settlement in the United States: A town in Rockingham County, Virginia.
- A rare surname
Adjective
- Flashy; showy.
- Of, or pertaining to, the cards that make up a Broadway straight.
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