Broadway

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
• The theater district of Manhattan.
• The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
• The American theater industry.
• The government of Manitoba .
• Two villages in England:
• hamlet The Havens (Welsh community) Pembrokeshire (county) Wales (constituent country) .
• village Wexford (county) Ireland (country).
• community Nova Scotia (province) Canada (country).
• neighbourhood city, Newark Essex County (county) New Jersey (state).
• (unincorporated) community/and/CDP Warren County (county) New Jersey (state).
• town North Carolina (state).
• town Virginia (state).

Noun

• The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.

Adjective

• Flashy; showy.
• Of, or pertaining to, the cards that make up a Broadway straight.

Origin

• 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.