wide street/road
plateia denotes a public street or broad route, whether in a city setting or in the broad road imagery of Matthew 7:13.
The attested uses chiefly locate activity on city streets: people are brought out, sent out, gathered in, or situated within a city's street. A single occurrence uses a broad road in the contrast with the narrow gate.
Senses in use
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City street or public thoroughfare · dominant
The accusative plural form occurs where people carry the sick out, are told to go out of a town, and are sent into a city's streets in Acts 5:15, Luke 10:10, and Luke 14:21; the APB renders these settings as “streets.” The singular forms mark the setting of a corpse in Revelation 11:8 and the city's gold street and broad street in Revelation 21:21 and Revelation 22:2.
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Broad road in a gate-and-road contrast · rare
In Matthew 7:13, the nominative singular feminine form occurs in the clause contrasting the narrow gate with a wide gate and broad road; the APB renders the road as leading away toward destruction.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term's setting with “streets” or “street,” while Matthew 7:13 has “road” and Revelation 22:2 has “broad street.” These renderings describe the clauses rather than establishing separate definitions.