Broadway
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 百老汇大街
词源说明
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.
释义（英文）
专有名词 Proper noun
- A street name, typically for a wide road: a specific broad way.
- A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
- The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
- The theater district of Manhattan.
- The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
- (metonymic) The American theater industry.
- (Manitoba, metonymic) The government of Manitoba (from the Legislative Building's address, on Broadway).
- Two villages in England: