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broadbrow

PRONUNCIATION:

(BRAHD-brow)

MEANING:

noun: A person with a broad range of interests.
adjective: Appealing to people with a broad range of interests.

ETYMOLOGY:

Coined by J.B. Priestley (1894-1984), from broad + brow, on the pattern of highbrow and lowbrow. Earliest documented use: 1924. Also see middlebrow.

USAGE:

“The broadbrow books [my mother] most loved include Mary Webb’s Precious Bane, Jessamine West’s The Massacre at Fall Creek, and novels by Margaret Drabble, Alex Haley, James Michener, and Jean Plaidy.”
Helen Taylor; Why Women Read Fiction; Oxford University Press; 2019.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

There is no human being who, as a result of desiring to build a better life, should be named or declared illegal. -Alejandro G. Inarritu, film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 15 Aug 1963)

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