broad and wide

Wide is used for the physical distance from one side of something to the other.

• We live in a very wide street.
  


• The car's too wide for the garage.

Broad is mostly used in abstract expressions.

• broad agreement ( = agreement on most points)


• broad-minded ( = tolerant)


• broad daylight ( = full, bright daylight)

Broad is also used in the expression broad shoulders ( = wide strong shoulders), and in descriptions of landscape in a formal style.

• Across the broad valley, the mountains rose blue and mysterious.