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broadway

/brawd-wey/US // ˈbrɔdˌweɪ //UK // (ˈbrɔːdˌweɪ) //

百老汇,百老匯,百汇,百路通

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a street in New York City, famous for its theaters, restaurants, and bright lights.
    • : the theater district located on or near this street, especially as the center of the professional or commercial theater in the U.S.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to, suitable for, or produced in the commercial theater, especially on Broadway: a Broadway show.
    • : acting or working on Broadway: a Broadway producer; a Broadway star.
    • : characteristic of or frequenting the theater district on Broadway.
    • : garish; tawdry.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Portraying Hades in the Tony-winning Broadway musical “Hadestown” has given even more hellish variety to Page’s penetration of the diabolical mind.

  • He brought Whoopi Goldberg when she was unknown to fame and Broadway.

  • A few days ago, Kylie Estreich went to a theater in Sydney to see a Broadway show.

  • Poitier’s performance in Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking “A Raisin in the Sun” on Broadway in 1959, garnered him a Tony nomination.

  • His mother, long dead, sitting in the corner of his Broadway dressing room, her “ghost never far from the action.”

  • Pee-wee was also a family favorite, and we caught the show on Broadway.

  • I heard that at one point you were trying to put together a Batman musical on Broadway.

  • Only on Broadway could they write what they wanted and adventurously as they wished.

  • As he debuts on Broadway, he talks Beyoncé, Kristen Stewart, Benedict Cumberbatch, and the ‘gay sensibility’ in all he does.

  • “It feels very gratifying having gotten here,” Condon says of his Broadway debut.

  • The high rent of a Broadway store, says the economist, does not add a single cent to the price of the things sold in it.

  • The voice drifted up from the corner of Taylor and Broadway, where the two men waited for a car.

  • Lamb kept at a cautious distance as they moved several blocks up Broadway.

  • But a few seconds later, his long legs were carrying him rapidly toward Broadway.

  • He was hanging around by the cab stand above 96th on the west side of Broadway, waiting hopefully.