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abroad - 4 dictionary results

a⋅broad

[uh-brawd]
–adverb
1. in or to a foreign country or countries: famous at home and abroad.
2. in or to another continent: Shall we go to Mexico or abroad this summer?
3. out of doors; from one place to another; about: No one was abroad in the noonday heat. The owl ventures abroad at night.
4. spread around; in circulation: Rumors of disaster are abroad.
5. broadly; widely; far and wide.
6. wide of the mark; in error.
–noun
7. a foreign land or lands: imports from abroad.

Origin:
1225–75; ME abrod. See a- 1 , broad


1. overseas. 3. out, outside. 4. everywhere, rife.


1. at home.
a·broad   (ə-brôd')   
adv.   & adj.
  1. Out of one's own country.
  2. In a foreign country or countries.
  3. Away from one's home.
  4. In circulation; at large.
  5. Covering a large area; widely: "An epidemic is abroad in America" (Richard M. Smith).
  6. Not on target; in error.
n.  A foreign country or countries in which to live or travel: "Do you like abroad or hate it?" (John le Carré).

[Middle English abrod : a-, in, on; see a-2 + brod, broad; see broad.]

Abroad

A*broad"\, adv. [Pref. a- + broad.]

1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.

The fox roams far abroad. --Prior.

2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.

I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. --Evelyn.

3. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." --Macaulay.

4. Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.

He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. --Mark i. 45.

To be abroad. (a) To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused.
Language Translation for : abroad
Spanish: en el extranjero, fuera,
German: im Ausland; ins Ausland,
Japanese: 国外で

abroad 
c.1260, "widely apart," from O.E. on brede, which meant something like "at wide." The sense "out of doors, away from home" 1377) led to the main modern sense of "out of one's country, overseas" (c.1450).
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