HOW TO PRONOUNCE
broadcast
/ˈbɹɔdˌkæst/
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What does broadcast mean?
adjective
- Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
- Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.
- Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.
More meanings (10)
adverb
- Widely in all directions; abroad.
- (archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
noun
- A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
- A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
- (archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
verb
- To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.
- To transmit a message over a wide area.
- To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
- To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
- (archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɹɔdˌkæst/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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As I write them, so these things come--not set in gradation, but like the broadcast flowers in the mowing-grass.
For four heart-breaking years, the strife of a nation at war with itself had spread desolation and sorrow broadcast.
More book examples (3)
A sweep of chilly air passed by, rustling all the leaves and snowing the flaky ashes broadcast about the fire.
Fertilizing material is sown broadcast, or it may be scattered lightly in furrows underneath the seeds, and then covered with earth.
Then he happened on a job to translate the advertisements of patent medicines which were sent broadcast to the medical profession in England.