 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abroad
adjective: in a foreign country; "markets abroad"; "overseas markets"
[syn: {overseas}]
adverb
1: to or in a foreign country; "they had never travelled
abroad"
2: far away from home or one's usual surroundings; "looking
afield for new lands to conquer"- R.A.Hall [syn: {afield}]
3: in a place across an ocean [syn: {overseas}, {beyond the sea},
{over the sea}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abroad \A*broad"\, adverb [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "abroad":
abashed, aberrant, adrift, afield, alfresco, all abroad, all off,
all wrong, amiss, askew, astray, at fault, at large, at sea, away,
away from home, awry, beside the mark, bewildered, beyond seas,
bothered, broadly, clear, clueless, confused, corrupt, deceptive,
defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, discomposed,
disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, distantly and broadly,
distorted, distracted, distraught, disturbed, embarrassed,
en plein air, errant, erring, erroneous, everywhere, extensively,
fallacious, false, far afield, far and near, far and wide,
faultful, faulty, flawed, guessing, heretical, heterodox,
illogical, illusory, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a scrape,
in a stew, in foreign parts, in the open, infinitely, lost, mazed,
nonresident, not in residence, not right, not true, off,
off the track, on all sides, on every side, on leave,
on sabbatical leave, on the road, on tour, out, out of doors,
outdoors, outside, oversea, overseas, peccant, perturbed, perverse,
perverted, publicly, put-out, right and left, self-contradictory,
straying, turned around, unfactual, unorthodox, unproved, untrue,
upset, vastly, wide, widely, without a clue, wrong
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