abroad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɹɔːd/
ipa: /əˈbɹɔd/
ipa: /əˈbɹɑd/
rhymes: -ɔːd
Forms: form: abrode
form: overbroad
form: abread
form: abreed
form: abrede
form: abraid
Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:
text: Another prince, deposed by the Revolution, was living abroad.
ref: 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume 3:
glosses: Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
examples: text: A tree spreads its branches abroad.
text: "Faither!" I cried as I undid the bolt and pushed the leaves of the door abroad, "Faither, ye are welcome hame!"
ref: 1895, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Men of the Moss-hags, page 28:
glosses: At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
examples: text: I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad.
ref: p. 1650, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, Diary, Frederic Warne and Company, published 1818, entry for 1650 July 7, page 207:
text: Again: The lonely fox roams far abroad, / On ſecret rapine bent and midnight fraud; […]
ref: 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions:
text: 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.
ref: 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Return of Imray:
text: 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?
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter 1, in The House Behind the Cedars:
text: But the time was soon over, and before he realized it Tarzan found himself abroad again. Several times De Coude had called, and when he found that Tarzan was anxious for employment of some nature he promised to see what could be done to find a berth for him.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “A Duel”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 83:
text: There were very few people abroad and the two men standing quietly under a tree on the opposite side of the boulevard looked out of place.
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 6, in Casino Royale, page 34:
glosses: Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
examples: text: This Peece, or Schisme of Suicisme, and Selfishnesse, hath spawned most of the Heresies and Schismes, that are abroad in the World.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 1:45:
glosses: Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
glosses: Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
Derived terms: abroadness
be abroad
go abroad
study abroad
the schoolmaster is abroad