broadening

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broadening

/ˈbɹɔː.də.nɪŋ/ UK
/ˈbɹɔːd.nɪŋ/ UK
/ˈbɹɔ.də.nɪŋ/ US
/ˈbɹɔd.nɪŋ/ US
/ˈbɹɑ.də.nɪŋ/ US
/ˈbɹɑd.nɪŋ/ US
/ˈbɹoː.də.nɪŋ/ Australia
/ˈbɹoːd.nɪŋ/ Australia

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of broaden

noun broadenings

The act of becoming broader.
The act of making (something) broader. The broadening of the main street in this sleepy town is expected to cost a lot of money; it is said that the project will be financed with municipal bonds, but many citizens are skeptical of such debt.

adjective more broadening · most broadening

That gives someone broader education and experience; that broadens someone's horizons. Travel is broadening. And exciting too, sometimes. In eleven European trips and two circumaviations during the past eleven years in quest of rare books, I have been lucky on two or three occasions. In Edinburgh in 1959 I came across a set of Blaeu's Atlas in eleven large volumes, printed in Amsterda

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Closest in meaning: widening, widen, extension, extend, extensibility, expandability, enlarge, enlarging, extended, enlargement, expand, magnification, increase, growing, spread, increasing

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@misc{broadening_2026,
  title = {broadening},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/broadening},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}