Meaning

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries..

Definitions by Sense

1. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
2. (dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
3. (dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
4. (dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
5. Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
6. (sports) Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
7. (rare, Scotland) Countries or lands abroad.
8. Throughout, over.

Example Sentences

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.

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!"

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; […]

She spoke to Strickland in a language of her own, and whenever in her walks abroad she saw things calculated to destroy the peace of Her Majesty the Queen Empress, she returned to her master and gave him information.

Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?

Word Forms

• abrode
• overbroad
• abread
• abreed
• abrede
• abraid

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Use abroad when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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