broadcast
pronunciation
How to pronounce broadcast in British English:
UK [ˈbrɔːdkɑːst]
How to pronounce broadcast in American English:
US [ˈbrɔːdkæst]
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- Noun:
- message that is transmitted by radio or television
- a radio or television show
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- Verb:
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
- sow over a wide area, especially by hand
- cause to become widely known
Word Origin
- broadcast
- broadcast: [18] Broadcast was originally an adjective and adverb, and meant literally ‘scattered widely’, particularly in the context of sowing seeds. A metaphorical sense developed in the late 18th and 19th centuries (William Stubbs, in his Constitutional History of England 1875 writes of ‘broadcast accusations’), and the word was ready in the early 1920s for application to the transmission of radio signals (the first actual record of such a use is as a verb, in the April 1921 issue of Discovery: ‘The [radio] station at Poldhu is used partly for broadcasting Press and other messages to ships’).
- broadcast
- 1767, adjective, in reference to the spreading of seed, from broad (adj.) + past participle of cast (v.). Figurative use is recorded from 1785. Modern media use began with radio (1922, adjective and noun). As a verb, recorded from 1813 in an agricultural sense, 1829 in a figurative sense, 1921 in reference to radio.
Synonym
Example
- 1. It was initially launched to broadcast arabic news .
- 2. They broadcast in english , spanish and arabic .
- 3. The best example is the 30-second spot on broadcast television .
- 4. The groundbreaking flight is being broadcast live on the web .
- 5. Everything they knew was received via a broadcast on cnn .