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B'way

B'way is the clipping of Broadway.

Meaning of Broadway

Proper noun

Broadway (uncountable)

  1. A street name, typically for a wide road: a specific broad way.
  2. A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
  3. The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
    Synonyms:
    Great White Way
  4. The theater district of Manhattan.
  5. The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
    • Coordinate term: off-Broadway
  6. (metonymically) The American theater industry.
    • Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.2007 July 8, Jesse Green, “Let Her Entertain You. Please!”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020

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Origin of B'way

Syncopic form of Broadway.

Questions about B'way

What is B'way the clipping of?
B'way is the clipping of Broadway.

Words near B'way in the dictionary

  1. B'nei Yisroel
  2. b'not mitzvah
  3. b's
  4. b'steeya
  5. b'steeyas
  6. B'way
  7. B'wood
  8. b'y
  9. b'ys
  10. b******s
  11. b******sed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: B'way (page history and authors); Broadway (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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