abroad

UK /əˈbɹɔːd/ US /əˈbɹɔːd/
adv 5noun 1prep 1adj 1

Definitions

adv

1

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.

2

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!"

3

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; […]

4

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.

5

Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.

noun

1

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

1

Throughout, over.

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