Dictionary

broad-shouldered en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having broad shoulders.
   • Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense. 1989, Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 4:
2. Having a sturdy construction or constitution.

Forms

Synonyms

big-shouldered

Translations (25)

ca espatllut (having broad shoulders) · fi harteva (having broad shoulders) · ru плечи́стый (having broad shoulders) · rup bãtalcu (having broad shoulders) · cs ramenatý (having broad shoulders) · uk широкоплечий (having broad shoulders) · sh плѐћат (having broad shoulders) · ru широкопле́чий (having broad shoulders) · sl plečàt (having broad shoulders) · fi leveäharteinen (having broad shoulders) · bg широкоплещест (having broad shoulders) · tr geniş omuzlu (having broad shoulders) · pl barczysty (having broad shoulders) · nl breedgeschouderd (having broad shoulders) · ro spătos (having broad shoulders) · pl pleczysty (having broad shoulders) · is herðabreiður (having broad shoulders) · rup plãtãros (having broad shoulders) · sv bredaxlad (having broad shoulders) · da hærdebred (having broad shoulders) · fr large d'épaules (having broad shoulders) · fi harteikas (having broad shoulders) · sh plèćat (having broad shoulders) · de breitschultrig (having broad shoulders) · da bredskuldret (having broad shoulders)