# Broadway

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈbɹɔdweɪ/ · frequency rank #6,216

## Definitions
1. A street name, typically for a wide road: a specific broad way.
2. A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
3. The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
4. The theater district of Manhattan.
5. The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
6. The American theater industry.
7. The government of Manitoba (from the Legislative Building's address, on Broadway).
8. Two villages in England:
9. Two villages in England:
10. A hamlet in The Havens community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8713).
11. A village in County Wexford, Ireland.
12. A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
13. A settlement in the United States:
14. A settlement in the United States:
15. A settlement in the United States:
16. A settlement in the United States:
17. A settlement in the United States:
18. A locality in the Upper Lachlan council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
19. A rare surname

## Etymology
By surface analysis, a proprialization from broadway. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements, in common noun and proper noun forms, for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively.
Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

## Easily confused with
- **broadly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/broadly-vs-broadway)

## Common misspellings (12)
`bbroadway`, `boradway`, `braodway`, `broadawy`, `broaddway`, `broadwayy`, `broadwway`, `broadwya`, `broawday`, `brodaway`, `brroadway`, `rboadway`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/broadway