Broadway
- Proper noun. A street name found in a number of anglophone settlements, typically referring to a wide road; a broad way.
- Proper noun. A settlement which grew up around such a road, eg. Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
- Proper noun. Notably, in the Borough of Manhattan, in New York City, a wide road cutting a lazy diagonal through the mostly rigid grid-system.
- Proper noun. The theater district of Manhattan; specifically, those theaters (most of which are actually not fronting on Broadway) covered by contracts between the theater owners and the theatrical unions.
- Proper noun. The American theater industry.
- Noun. (poker slang) The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.
- Adjective. (by extension, _) Flashy; showy.
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