abroad
Part of speech: adv
prep
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- + broad.
Base: broad
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: abrode
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: overbroad
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: abread
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: abreed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: abrede
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: abraid
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: abrode
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: overbroad
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: abread
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: abreed
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: abrede
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: abraid
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
examples: 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.
gloss: At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
pos: adv
tags: dated
not-comparable
postpositional
examples: 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!"
gloss: Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
pos: adv
tags: dated
not-comparable
postpositional
examples: 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?
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.
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.
gloss: Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
pos: adv
tags: dated
not-comparable
postpositional
examples: 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.
gloss: Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
gloss: Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
gloss: Throughout, over.
pos: prep
tags: postpositional
Derived words: abroadness
be abroad
go abroad
study abroad
the schoolmaster is abroad
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