abroad
noun
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L1407611 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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L334206 on Wikidata ↗adverb
- in or to a foreign country or countries
- in different directions; over a wide area
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɔːd/ / /əˈbɹoːd/ / /əˈbɹɔd/
adj
Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
- International.
“[...] much shorter than an abroad trip at eight nights although the average spending per person night is only slightly less on a US trip than an abroad trip, $37 compared with $41. Around half of Canadian trips to other countries are to Europe.”
“[...] an abroad trip was going to raise some heat in the town, amongst our relatives. My family has always been the pioneers of middle-classism. My mother has still never owned a diamond.”
adv
Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
- Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
“A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable.”
“Another prince, deposed by the Revolution, was living abroad.”
- At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
“A tree spreads its branches abroad.”
“"Faither!" I cried as I undid the bolt and pushed the leaves of the door abroad, "Faither, ye are welcome hame!"”
- Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
“I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad.”
“Again: The lonely fox roams far abroad, / On ſecret rapine bent and midnight fraud; […]”
- Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
“This Peece, or Schisme of Suicisme, and Selfishnesse, hath spawned most of the Heresies and Schismes, that are abroad in the World.”
“But he went out, and beganne to publish it much, and to blase abroad the matter: insomuch that Iesus could no more openly enter into the citie, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from euery quarter.”
- Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
- Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
noun
Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
- Countries or lands abroad.
“I hate abroad, abroad’s bloody.”
“I am not, however, a xenophobe: obviously, abroad has some good ideas—arranged marriages, violent revolutions and so on.”
prep
Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
- Throughout, over.