Broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔdweɪ/
Etymology: From broad + way. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively.
Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Senses: glosses: A street name, typically for a wide road; a broad way.
glosses: A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
synonyms: Great White Way
glosses: The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
glosses: The theater district of Manhattan.
glosses: The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
examples: text: Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.
ref: 2007 July 8, Jesse Green, “Let Her Entertain You. Please!”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020:
text: “King Homer” follows the story of King Kong closely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in The AV Club, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2013:
glosses: The American theater industry.
examples: text: Angry city councillors lashed out against both Broadway and Ottawa on Wednesday, claiming the Doer government and the Harper Conservatives are spending millions on infrastructure projects Winnipeg doesn't want and not enough on road repairs the city needs.
ref: 2009 June 25, “Verbal vent at city hall: Councillors attack province, feds on their infrastructure priorities”, in Winnipeg Free Press:
qualifier: Manitoba
glosses: The government of Manitoba (from the Legislative Building's address, on Broadway).
glosses: Two villages in England:
A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SP0937).
glosses: Two villages in England:
A village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST3215).
glosses: A hamlet in The Havens community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8713).
glosses: A village in County Wexford, Ireland.
glosses: A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A settlement in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.
glosses: A settlement in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Warren County, New Jersey.
glosses: A settlement in the United States:
A town in Lee County, North Carolina.
glosses: A settlement in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Taylor Township, Union County, Ohio.
glosses: A settlement in the United States:
A town in Rockingham County, Virginia.
glosses: A rare surname