Broadcast

Quick meaning: Broadcast is an adjective meaning Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.

Meaning

Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.

More Meanings

1. Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.
2. (attributive) Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.
3. Widely in all directions; abroad.
4. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
5. A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
6. A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
7. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

Example Sentences

The seed was broadcast, not drilled.

The new limitations would still prohibit foreigners from wholly or directly owning broadcast licensees, allowing only indirect ownership through a stake in a controlling parent of a broadcast licensee.

There must be action on and participation in broadcast methods of public education, face to face, in groups, or by use of the mails. This, however, is of secondary importance to the man-to-man job of education in care with fire in the woods.

[O]n reporting to Captain Thrasher he informed me that his orders were to take a detachment of forty men across the French Broad River and turn them loose to wander broadcast over the country as a protection to foraging parties of quartermasters and commissaries, […]

Word Forms

• broadcasts
• broadcasting
• broadcasted

Synonyms for broadcast

Depending on context, synonyms include widespread, air, transmit, send, disseminate, propagate.

Antonyms for broadcast

Common opposites include narrowcast.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spread, propagate, disseminate, diffuse, distribute, disperse.

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