Broad
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Things known as Broad or broads are:
In hydrology:
- Benacre Broad, isolated broad in Suffolk, England, within The Broads National Park
- Broad River, disambiguation
- Malthouse Broad, lake at Ranworth in the Norfolk Broads within the British The Broads National Park
- The Broads, network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk
In geography:
- Broad Channel, Queens, community in the borough of Queens in New York City
- Broad Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, one of five communities on King's Island
- Broad Street, disambiguation
In other fields:
- 10BROAD36, obsolete standard for carrying 10 Mbit/s Ethernet signals over standard 75 ohm CATV cable over a 3600 meter range
- Broad church, Latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England
- Broad Front - Progressive Encounter - New Majority, Uruguayan coalition of political parties and organizations
- Broad gauge, rail gauge greater than the standard gauge of 4'8.5"
- Broad pennant, swallow-tailed tapering flag flown from the masthead of a ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board
- Charlie Dunbar Broad, English philosopher known for his thorough and objective analysis in works such as Scientific Thought (1930) and Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy (1993)
- Broad is a slang term for a woman which may be considered derogatory.