English Explanatory Dictionary

broadcast

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
  2. Communicated, signalled, or transmitted to many people, through radio waves or electronic means.
  3. Relating to transmissions of messages or signals to many people through radio waves or electronic means.
adv
  1. Widely in all directions; abroad.
  2. By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
noun
  1. A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
  2. A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.
  3. The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
verb
  1. To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.
  2. To transmit a message over a wide area.
  3. To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
  4. To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
  5. To sow seeds over a wide area.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɹɔːdkɑːst/ /ˈbɹoːdkɑːst/ /ˈbɹɔːdkast/ /ˈbɾɔdkast/ /ˈbɹɔdkæst/ /ˈbɹɑdkæst/ en-us-broadcast.ogg /ˈbɹɒdkæst/ en-ca-broadcast.ogg

Word forms

broadcast more broadcast most broadcast broadcasts broadcasting broadcasted

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.? Proto-Germanic *braidaz Proto-West Germanic *braid Old English brād Middle English brod English broad Proto-Germanic *kas- Proto-Germanic *kastōną Old Norse kastabor. Middle English casten English cast English broadcast From broad + cast. First attested in the mid 18th century, in the agricultural use of spreading seeds.

Synonyms

widespread air transmit send

Antonyms

narrowcast

Derived words

anycast blogcast broadcastability broadcastable broadcast delay broadcast jockey broadcast radiation broadcast station broadcast storm cablecast direct broadcast satellite lifecast microbroadcast multicast newscast party political broadcast podcast postbroadcast prebroadcast telebroadcast webcast cybercast fancast narrowcast nonbroadcast radiobroadcast broadcaster broadcasting peercast pointcast rebroadcast simulcast sodcast unbroadcast unbroadcasted unicast

Translations

Albanian: emision Arabic: بَرْنَامَج Belarusian: перада́ча Belarusian: прагра́ма Bulgarian: преда́ване Bulgarian: програ́ма Catalan: programa Chinese Mandarin: 節目 /节目 Czech: program Czech: pořad Czech: relace Danish: udsendelse Danish: program Dutch: uitzending Dutch: programma Faroese: sending Finnish: lähetys French: émission Georgian: გადაცემა German: Sendung Greek: εκπομπή Greek: μετάδοση Greek: πρόγραμμα Hebrew: שידור \ שִׁדּוּר Hungarian: adás Indonesian: siaran Irish: craoladh Italian: programma Japanese: 番組 Kazakh: бағдарлама Korean: 프로그램 Korean: 프로 Kyrgyz: уктуруу Kyrgyz: берүү Macedonian: емисија Macedonian: програма Malay: siaran Māori: pāho Norwegian Bokmål: program Norwegian Bokmål: utsending Iranian Persian: بَرْنامِه Polish: audycja Polish: emisja Polish: program Portuguese: transmissão Romanian: emisiune Russian: переда́ча Russian: програ́мма Serbo-Croatian: емѝсија Serbo-Croatian: про̀грам Serbo-Croatian: emìsija Serbo-Croatian: prògram Slovak: program Slovak: relácia Slovene: program Slovene: oddaja Spanish: programa Spanish: emisión Swedish: program Swedish: sändning Tajik: барнома Thai: รายการ Thai: โปรแกรม Bulgarian: разпространя́вам Finnish: levittää Galician: transmitir Galician: emitir Galician: retransmitir Galician: televisar German: übertragen Irish: scaip Italian: diffondere Latin: dissēminō Latin: vulgō Māori: whakapāho Portuguese: transmitir Portuguese: difundir Russian: распространя́ть Turkish: yayınlamak
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