Definitions for broadcast

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broadcast broad·cast

Spelling: [brawd-kast, -kahst]

IPA: /ˈbrɔdˌkæst, -ˌkɑst/

Broadcast is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 512 anagrams from letters in broadcast (aabcdorst).

Definitions for broadcast

noun

1. something that is broadcast.
2. a single radio or television program.
3. the broadcasting of radio or television messages, speeches, etc.
4. a single period of broadcasting.
5. a method of sowing by scattering seed.

adverb

1. so as to reach the greatest number of people by radio or television:
2. so as to be cast abroad over an area:

adjective

1. (of programs) transmitted from a radio or television station.
2. of or relating to broadcasting.
3. cast abroad or all over an area, as seed scattered widely.

verb (used with object)

1. to transmit (programs) from a radio or television station.
2. to speak, perform, sponsor, or present on a radio or television program:
3. to cast or scatter abroad over an area, as seed in sowing.
4. to spread widely; disseminate:
5. to indicate unwittingly to another (one's next action); telegraph:

verb (used without object)

1. to transmit programs or signals from a radio or television station.
2. to make something known widely; disseminate something.
3. to speak, perform, sponsor, or present all or part of a radio or television program:

Origin of broadcast

1760-70; orig., broad (adv.) + cast, past participle of cast

Examples for broadcast

If you look at the newspapers, it's all broadcast all over the place.

The address to the crowd at the Capitol was broadcast on a loudspeaker.

The Internet news agency slon.ru compiled a list of all the mistakes in the broadcast by Channel 1.

In fact, Americans had to wait several hours until film of the event reached New York for it to be broadcast.

Thank you, FCC, for all the football that is broadcast on Thanksgiving Day.

A moment later the red bulb blinked out and the broadcast was ended.

More than 20 million people tuned in to a broadcast network drama and saw two gay men have explicit sex.

Either that, or our rationales were torn free and only our emotions are broadcast.

The flashlights and the broadcast would be useless against them.

A futuristic touch, that—we'd say the cart ran on broadcast power.