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Meaning of "broaden" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BROADEN

broaden  [ˈbrɔːdən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BROADEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Broaden is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb broaden in English.

WHAT DOES BROADEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of broaden in the English dictionary

The definition of broaden in the dictionary is to make or become broad or broader; widen.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BROADEN

PRESENT

Present
I broaden
you broaden
he/she/it broadens
we broaden
you broaden
they broaden
Present continuous
I am broadening
you are broadening
he/she/it is broadening
we are broadening
you are broadening
they are broadening
Present perfect
I have broadened
you have broadened
he/she/it has broadened
we have broadened
you have broadened
they have broadened
Present perfect continuous
I have been broadening
you have been broadening
he/she/it has been broadening
we have been broadening
you have been broadening
they have been broadening
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I broadened
you broadened
he/she/it broadened
we broadened
you broadened
they broadened
Past continuous
I was broadening
you were broadening
he/she/it was broadening
we were broadening
you were broadening
they were broadening
Past perfect
I had broadened
you had broadened
he/she/it had broadened
we had broadened
you had broadened
they had broadened
Past perfect continuous
I had been broadening
you had been broadening
he/she/it had been broadening
we had been broadening
you had been broadening
they had been broadening
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will broaden
you will broaden
he/she/it will broaden
we will broaden
you will broaden
they will broaden
Future continuous
I will be broadening
you will be broadening
he/she/it will be broadening
we will be broadening
you will be broadening
they will be broadening
Future perfect
I will have broadened
you will have broadened
he/she/it will have broadened
we will have broadened
you will have broadened
they will have broadened
Future perfect continuous
I will have been broadening
you will have been broadening
he/she/it will have been broadening
we will have been broadening
you will have been broadening
they will have been broadening
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would broaden
you would broaden
he/she/it would broaden
we would broaden
you would broaden
they would broaden
Conditional continuous
I would be broadening
you would be broadening
he/she/it would be broadening
we would be broadening
you would be broadening
they would be broadening
Conditional perfect
I would have broaden
you would have broaden
he/she/it would have broaden
we would have broaden
you would have broaden
they would have broaden
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been broadening
you would have been broadening
he/she/it would have been broadening
we would have been broadening
you would have been broadening
they would have been broadening
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you broaden
we let´s broaden
you broaden
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to broaden
Past participle
broadened
Present Participle
broadening
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BROADEN


Arden
ˈɑːdən
Auden
ˈɔːdən
Baden
ˈbaːdən
burden
ˈbɜːdən
churchwarden
ˌtʃɜːtʃˈwɔːdən
common-or-garden
ˌkɒmənərˈɡɑːdən
cordon
ˈkɔːdən
cotyledon
ˌkɒtɪˈliːdən
Eden
ˈiːdən
firewarden
ˈfaɪəˌwɔːdən
garden
ˈɡɑːdən
Gordon
ˈɡɔːdən
harden
ˈhɑːdən
Hordern
ˈhɔːdən
Jordan
ˈdʒɔːdən
overburden
ˌəʊvəˈbɜːdən
pardon
ˈpɑːdən
subwarden
ˈsʌbˌwɔːdən
Sweden
ˈswiːdən
warden
ˈwɔːdən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BROADEN

broadbill
broadbrim
broadbrush
broadcast
broadcaster
broadcasting
Broadcasting House
Broadcasting Standards Authority
broadcasting station
broadcloth
broadener
broadish
Broadlands
broadleaf
broadleaved spindle tree
broadleaved whitebeam
broadleaves
broadline
broadloom
broadly

WORDS THAT END LIKE BROADEN

Baden-Baden
Berchtesgaden
bin Laden
deaden
debt-laden
doom-laden
Haden
heavy-laden
laden
leaden
loaden
menhaden
Ogaden
overladen
the Ogaden
theory-laden
threaden
unladen
Wiesbaden

Synonyms and antonyms of broaden in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BROADEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «broaden» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of broaden

Translation of «broaden» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BROADEN

Find out the translation of broaden to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of broaden from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «broaden» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

变宽
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ensancharse
570 millions of speakers

English

broaden
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

व्यापक बनाने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

توسيع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

расширить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alargar-se
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উদার করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

s´élargir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Meluaskan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sich verbreitern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

広くなる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

넓어지다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngembangake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mở rộng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விரிவுபடுத்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विस्तृत करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

genişletmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

allargarsi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozszerzyć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розширити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

extinde
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διευρύνουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbreed
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bredda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

utvide
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of broaden

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BROADEN»

The term «broaden» is very widely used and occupies the 23.153 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BROADEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «broaden» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «broaden» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about broaden

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «BROADEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word broaden.
1
Shinzo Abe
The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.
2
Steve Albini
My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.
3
John R. Allen
There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.
4
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
5
Banks
When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
6
Ethel Barrymore
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
7
Mary Catherine Bateson
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
8
Frank Carlucci
Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.
9
Frank Carlucci
The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.
10
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BROADEN»

Discover the use of broaden in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to broaden and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Broaden the Vision and Narrow the Focus: Managing in a World ...
Twenty keys to solving problems, making decisions, and taking action when you're faced with conflicting goals and priorities.
James Raymond Lucas, 2006
2
To Broaden the Way: A Confucian-Jewish Dialogue
To Broaden the Way suggests that the texts of both the Jewish and Confucian tradition talk in riddles of a special kind: riddles, which are introduced - and answered - by religious forms of life.
Galia Patt-Shamir, 2006
3
Effective Group Problem Solving: How to Broaden ...
Provides an integrated, easy-to-use approach that improves efficiency, minimizes interpersonal conflicts, and produces results.
William M. Fox, 1987
4
Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Human ...
Creativity and productivity: broaden-and-build theory Professor Barbara Fredrickson (2002) at the University of Michigan has extended the idea that positive emotions lead to non-zero-sum games. She has developed the broaden- and-build ...
Alan Carr, 2004
5
Debt Management: Treasury Has Improved Short-Term Investment ...
Appendix. II: Acceptable. Collateral. in. Treasury's. Short-Term. Investment. Programs. This appendix provides additional information on acceptable collateral for the Department of the Treasury's (Treasury) short-term investment programs.
6
The Transatlantic Colossus: Global Contributions to Broaden ...
Now available online: The Transatlantic Colossus: Global Contributions to Broaden the Debate on the EU-US Free Trade Agreement (2014), a publication from the Berlin Forum on Global Politics (BFoGP) in collaboration with the Internet & ...
Daniel Cardoso, Philani Mthembu, Marc Venhaus, Miguelángel Verde Garrido, 2014
7
The Power of Positive Thinking: Do Positive Emotions Broaden ...
One hundred and eleven participants were randomized to a positive or neutral mood condition and tested individually.
Deanna Hladek Hamilton, 2005
8
Knowledge Systems and Translation
Broaden or deepen? Some of the newer stances in translation studies view translation as a form of intercultural communication and technical translation as intercultural knowledge transfer. Such an approach establishes new research ...
Helle V. Dam, Jan Engberg, Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast, 2005
9
Positive Emotions: Short-term Mechanisms, Long-term ...
The Broaden-and-Build Theory Broaden-and-build is a multipart model, offering an overarching explanation for the observed effects of positive emotions. The theory has two modules, referred to as "broaden" and "build." Yet these modules are ...
Michael A. Cohn, 2008
10
A Primer in Positive Psychology
I also suspect that broaden-and-build theory strikes a special chord among those of us who were told during school or maybe yesterday at work not to have so much fun. This is, after all, serious business. Whatever. As a teacher, I try to be ...
Christopher Peterson, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BROADEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term broaden is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Virginia Republicans aim to broaden party appeal with ethnically …
Chuong Nguyen, the Republican state delegate candidate in Virginia's 87th District, left his native country of Vietnam in a small fishing boat and ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
2
Mobile Roundup: 2 solutions in the mobile space to broaden reach
In today's mobile roundup, a new attribution option that should give mobile brands better insight into their customer base, and a new solution ... «BizReport, Jul 15»
3
After long drought, Hillary to broaden media access, grant more …
Hillary Clinton has decided to make herself more available to the media and will begin doing national television interviews in the next week. «Fox News, Jul 15»
4
The Compleat Home Gardener: Visit nurseries and broaden your …
This is also the time of year to visit local nurseries and broaden your horizons when it comes to growing hydrangeas. There are a lot more ... «Longview Daily News, Jul 15»
5
Camp wants to broaden a child's horizon
WATERBURY — Inside a tiny church surrounded by rows of Scovill Homes, an upstairs room is painted so brightly with Dr. Seuss characters, ... «Waterbury Republican American, Jul 15»
6
SEC to broaden clawback rules
The SEC has proposed rules that would claw back executive compensation in cases where the company made accounting errors or other ... «IR Magazine, Jul 15»
7
UL Acquires the National Analysis Center to Broaden its Portfolio of …
NORTHBROOK, Ill., July 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- UL, a global safety science leader, today announced the acquisition of the National Analysis Center (NAC), ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
8
New York City Moves to Broaden Composting
New York City is moving to require arenas, large hotel restaurants and food wholesalers to compost all of their food scraps, a significant ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
9
USM approves amendments to sexual misconduct policy to broaden
The University System of Maryland Board of Regents approved June 19 amendments to its sexual misconduct policy on Saturday in response ... «Diamondback Online, Jul 15»
10
Texmaco, Titagarh broaden product offering, rail orders should …
Like Texmaco, Titagarh also aims to broaden its railway product portfolio. It has started manufacturing electric multiple units and metro coaches. «Livemint, Jul 15»

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