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Broadway


Broad·way

B0495000 (brôd′wā′) The principal theater and amusement district of New York City, on the West Side of midtown Manhattan centered along the thoroughfare of Broadway.

Broadway

(ˈbrɔːdˌweɪ) n (Placename) a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the USadj (Placename) of or relating to or suitable for the commercial theatre, esp on Broadway

Broad•way

(ˈbrɔdˌweɪ)

n. 1. a major avenue in New York City. 2. the professional or commercial theater in the U.S. as represented by the professional theater district in the vicinity of this avenue on the west side of the midtown area. Broad′way•ite`, n.

Broadway

The fashionable theater area of New York City.
Thesaurus
Noun1.Broadway - a street in Manhattan that passes through Times SquareBroadway - a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theatersGreat White WayManhattan - one of the five boroughs of New York City
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Broadway


Broadway

The major theater district in New York City. The phrase "on Broadway" is typically used of productions there. My dream is to end up on Broadway, starring in a famous play! We're headed over to Broadway now, so we'll meet you there!

on Broadway

Performing or staged in a theater or other venue located in the Theater District along Broadway, a large road that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The famous musical has been on Broadway for nearly 10 years in a row. I've always dreamed of doing a play on Broadway, but I think that's a bit of a pipe dream.See also: Broadway, on

on Broadway

Fig. located in the Broadway theater district in New York City; performed in the Broadway theater district. (Regarded as having the best of American stage productions.) Our musical is the best thing on Broadway! I want to be a star on Broadway someday.See also: Broadway, on

Broadway


Broadway,

famous thoroughfare in New York City. It extends from Bowling Green near the foot of Manhattan island N to 262d St. in the Bronx. Throughout its length Broadway is chiefly a commercial street. In lower Manhattan it runs through the financial center of the country; N of Union Square (14th St.) it passes a merchandising section; further N around Herald Square there are large department stores; around Times SquareTimes Square,
in New York City. Formed by the intersection of Broadway, Seventh Ave., and 42d St., this famous square was named (1904) for the building there that formerly belonged to the New York Times.
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 (42d St.), which has undergone significant redevelopment, it enters the theater district, or the "Great White Way," its most storied portion. Points of interest along Broadway include Trinity Church (Wall St.); St. Paul's Chapel, built 1766 (near City Hall); the Woolworth Building (at Barclay St.); the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (64th–66th streets); Columbia Univ.Columbia University,
mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions.
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 (113th–121st and 125th–133d streets); the Columbia Univ. Medical Center (168th St.); and Van Cortlandt Park (at the north end of the city). Beyond the city limits the road continues through Westchester co., becoming the Albany Post Road north of the village of Sleepy Hollow. Originally in part a Native American trail, Broadway was laid out by the Dutch who named it Brede Wegh [broad way], and was the principal street of New AmsterdamNew Amsterdam,
Dutch settlement at the mouth of the Hudson River and on the southern end of Manhattan island; est. 1624. It was the capital of the colony of New Netherland from 1626 to 1664, when it was captured by the British and renamed New York.
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. Its northern stretches in Manhattan, much of which does not follow the original trail, were formerly Bloomingdale Road.

Bibliography

See D. W. Dunlap, On Broadway (1990); F. Leadon, Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles (2018).

Broadway

famous theatrical district at New York’s Times Square. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 107]See: Theater

Broadway

a thoroughfare in New York City, famous for its theatres: the centre of the commercial theatre in the US

Broadway

(standard, operating system)A standard which the X Consortium is currently (January 1997) developing and plansto release soon as an open standard. A prime goal is to bemore bandwidth-efficient and easier to develop for (and toport) than the X Window System, which has been widelydescribed as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered andincredibly over-complicated.

http://x.org/consortium/broadway.html.
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Broadway


  • noun

Synonyms for Broadway

noun a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square

Synonyms

  • Great White Way

Related Words

  • Manhattan
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