BROADWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Broadway mean? 

• BROADWAY (noun)
  The noun BROADWAY has 1 sense:

1. a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters

  Familiarity information: BROADWAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROADWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Broadway; Great White Way

Instance hypernyms:

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Holonyms ("Broadway" is a part of...):

Manhattan (one of the five boroughs of New York City)

 Context examples 

"Or, better, meet me at Fourteenth and Broadway at two o'clock. I'll be looking out for you."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Ever since the day—about four years ago—that Miss Taylor and I met with him in Broadway Lane, when, because it began to drizzle, he darted away with so much gallantry, and borrowed two umbrellas for us from Farmer Mitchell's, I made up my mind on the subject.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Martin had encountered his sister Gertrude by chance on Broadway—as it proved, a most propitious yet disconcerting chance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As they crossed Broadway, he came face to face with a new problem.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"He becomes very sentimental sometimes," explained Gatsby. "This is one of his sentimental days. He's quite a character around New York—a denizen of Broadway."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Several old copies of "Town Tattle" lay on the table together with a copy of "Simon Called Peter" and some of the small scandal magazines of Broadway.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Meyer Wolfshiem's name wasn't in the phone book. The butler gave me his office address on Broadway and I called Information, but by the time I had the number it was long after five and no one answered the phone.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented place that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short cut from nothing to nothing.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)