broad vs local

broad

adj
  • Strongly regional. 

  • General rather than specific. 

  • Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. 

  • Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. 

  • Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained. 

  • Unsubtle; obvious. 

  • Plain; evident. 

  • Free; unrestrained; unconfined. 

  • Wide in extent or scope. 

  • Velarized, i.e. not palatalized. 

noun
  • A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. 

  • A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. 

  • A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. 

  • A kind of floodlight. 

local

adj
  • Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global 

  • Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. 

  • Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline. 

  • From or in a nearby location. 

  • Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program. 

  • Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole. 

  • Descended from an indigenous population. 

adv
  • In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc. 

noun
  • A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter. 

  • One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. 

  • An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors. 

  • A person who lives near a given place. 

  • A locally scoped identifier. 

  • An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. 

  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. 

How often have the words broad and local occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )