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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Of or pertaining to Broadway theaters, to the shows performed there, or to persons associated with them, as with "Broadway star" or "Broadway producer".

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Proper noun:

  • A settlement which grew up around such a road, eg. Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
  • A street name found in a number of anglophone settlements, typically referring to a wide road; a broad way.
  • poker slang The highest straight in poker, Ace-King-Queen-Jack-Ten
  • Notably, in the Borough of Manhattan, in New York City, a wide road cutting a lazy diagonal through the otherwise rigid grid-system.
  • The American theater industry.
  • 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.

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