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BROAD-SHOULDERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broad-shouldered mean? 

BROAD-SHOULDERED (adjective)
  The adjective BROAD-SHOULDERED has 1 sense:

1. having broad shouldersplay

  Familiarity information: BROAD-SHOULDERED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BROAD-SHOULDERED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having broad shoulders

Synonyms:

big-shouldered; broad-shouldered; square-shouldered

Context example:

big-shouldered and heavy-armed

Similar:

robust (sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction)


 Context examples 


My companion was a powerful, broad-shouldered young fellow, and, apart from the weapon, I should not have had the slightest chance in a struggle with him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I flung the curtain aside and found myself face to face with a broad-shouldered elderly man, who had just stepped into the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your eyes dwell on a Vulcan,—a real blacksmith, brown, broad-shouldered: and blind and lame into the bargain.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the opposite corner there sat a very burly and broad-shouldered man, clad in a black jerkin trimmed with sable, with a black velvet cap with curling white feather cocked upon the side of his head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A tall, broad-shouldered young fellow, with a cropped head, a felt basin of a hat, and a flyaway coat, came tramping down the road at a great pace, walked over the low fence without stopping to open the gate, straight up to Mrs. March, with both hands out and a hearty...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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