• (RP) IPA: /ˈbɹɔːdkɑːst/, /-kæst/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈbɹɔdkæst/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈbɹɑdkæst/
• (America)
• (California)

broadcast

1. cast#Verb|Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
   • 1923, Song Ong Siang, “The Tenth Decade (1909–19): First Part”, in One Hundred Years’ History of the Chinese in Singapore: […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 417315791 ↗, page 444 ↗:

     They alleged that, as soon as the Opium Commission was appointed, the various anti-opium organisations began to be extremely active and a determined campaign was carried on against the use of the drug by the circulation of a mass of anti-opium literature and the broadcast distribution of handbills and pamphlets.

2. Communicated, signal#Verb|signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means.
3. Relating to transmissions of message#Noun|messages or signal#Noun|signals through radio waves or electronic means.

• widespread

• German: weit verstreut

• German: ausgestrahlt, gesendet
• Portuguese: transmitido

broadcast

1. Widely in all directions; abroad.
2. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seed#Noun|seeds sown over a wide area.

broadcast (plural broadcasts)

1. A transmission of a radio#Noun|radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
2. A programme#Noun|programme (bulletin, documentary, show#Noun|show, etc.) so transmitted.

   Antonyms: narrowcast

3. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scatter#Verb|scattering seed#Noun|seed; a crop#Noun|crop grown from such seed.

• French: émission
• German: Sendung, Übertragung, Ausstrahlung, Rundfunk
• Italian: trasmissione, emissione, diffusione
• Portuguese: difusão, transmissão
• Russian: переда́ча
• Spanish: emisión

• German: Sendung
• Italian: programma
• Portuguese: transmissão
• Russian: переда́ча
• Spanish: programa

• German: Ausstreuen (act), Verstreuen (act), aufgegangene Saat (crop)
• Portuguese: semeadura

broadcast (broadcasts, present participle broadcasting; past and past participle broadcast)

1. (transitive) To transmit a message#Noun|message or signal#Noun|signal through radio waves or electronic means.

   Synonyms: air, transmit

   Antonyms: narrowcast

2. (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single#Adjective|single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
3. (intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
4. (transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seed#Noun|seeds over a wide area.

• French: diffuser, radiodiffuser
• German: senden, verbreiten, ausstrahlen, übertragen
• Italian: trasmettere, diffondere, andare in onda, radiodiffondere, radiotrasmettere, mandare in onda
• Portuguese: transmitir
• Russian: веща́ть
• Spanish: transmitir, emitir

• German: übertragen
• Italian: diffondere
• Portuguese: transmitir, difundir
• Russian: распространя́ть

• Italian: presentare
• Portuguese: apresentar

• Italian: spargere
• Portuguese: semear, disseminar