🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

广播

Pronunciation / Transliteration: guǎngbō

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Broadcast/ˈbrɔːd.kæst/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个节目正在现场广播。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A transmission of a program or information by radio or television.

    "We watched the live broadcast of the event."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from agricultural terminology, combining the Old Norse 'breiðr' (broad) and the Middle English 'casten' (to throw), originally describing the method of scattering seeds widely by hand. By the 19th and 20th centuries, the term evolved metaphorically to describe the dissemination of audio and video signals across wide geographic areas via radio, television, and digital networks.

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