Broadway
a street in New York City, famous for its theaters, restaurants, and bright lights.
the theater district located on or near this street, especially as the center of the professional or commercial theater in the U.S.
(of a play, theatrical performance, etc.) pertaining to, suitable for, or produced in the commercial theater, especially on Broadway: a Broadway show.
acting or working on Broadway: a Broadway producer; a Broadway star.
characteristic of or frequenting the theater district on Broadway.
garish; tawdry.
Other words from Broadway
- Broad·way·ite, noun
Words Nearby Broadway
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How to use Broadway in a sentence
Portraying Hades in the Tony-winning Broadway musical “Hadestown” has given even more hellish variety to Page’s penetration of the diabolical mind.
For Patrick Page, it’s Shakespeare’s bad guys who steal the show | Peter Marks | February 25, 2021 | Washington PostHe brought Whoopi Goldberg when she was unknown to fame and Broadway.
A few days ago, Kylie Estreich went to a theater in Sydney to see a Broadway show.
Missing Broadway? In Sydney, the lights are still on for ‘Hamilton,’ ‘Frozen’ and more. | Peter Marks | February 19, 2021 | Washington PostPoitier’s performance in Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking “A Raisin in the Sun” on Broadway in 1959, garnered him a Tony nomination.
Arizona State University Names New American Film School After Sidney Poitier | Brande Victorian | February 2, 2021 | Essence.comHis mother, long dead, sitting in the corner of his Broadway dressing room, her “ghost never far from the action.”
Gabriel Byrne’s ‘Walking with Ghosts’ is a revelation in unexpected ways | Keith Donohue | January 12, 2021 | Washington Post
Pee-wee was also a family favorite, and we caught the show on Broadway.
Tim Burton Talks ‘Big Eyes,’ His Taste For the Macabre, and the ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel | Marlow Stern | December 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI heard that at one point you were trying to put together a Batman musical on Broadway.
Tim Burton Talks ‘Big Eyes,’ His Taste For the Macabre, and the ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel | Marlow Stern | December 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOnly on Broadway could they write what they wanted and adventurously as they wished.
When Broadway Musicals Were Dark And Subversive | Laurence Maslon | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs he debuts on Broadway, he talks Beyoncé, Kristen Stewart, Benedict Cumberbatch, and the ‘gay sensibility’ in all he does.
“It feels very gratifying having gotten here,” Condon says of his Broadway debut.
The high rent of a Broadway store, says the economist, does not add a single cent to the price of the things sold in it.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe voice drifted up from the corner of Taylor and Broadway, where the two men waited for a car.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonLamb kept at a cautious distance as they moved several blocks up Broadway.
But a few seconds later, his long legs were carrying him rapidly toward Broadway.
He was hanging around by the cab stand above 96th on the west side of Broadway, waiting hopefully.
British Dictionary definitions for Broadway
/ (ˈbrɔːdˌweɪ) /
a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US
of or relating to or suitable for the commercial theatre, esp on Broadway
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Cultural definitions for Broadway (1 of 2)
The central group of theaters presenting live drama in New York City. Many of them are located on or adjacent to the street called Broadway (see also Broadway) in Manhattan.
A street in Manhattan, in New York City, that passes through Times Square.
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