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ABROAD
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a foreign country
Example:
overseas markets
Synonyms:
abroad; overseas
Classified under:
Similar:
foreign (of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own))
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To or in a foreign country
Example:
they had never travelled abroad
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a place across an ocean
Synonyms:
abroad; overseas
Classified under:
Sense 3
Meaning:
Far away from home or one's usual surroundings
Example:
looking afield for new lands to conquer
Synonyms:
abroad; afield
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
I would come to you abroad, but it would excite remark if I left the country at present.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The party spread itself abroad, in a fan shape, shouting and leaping to and fro.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When Marianne was recovered, the schemes of amusement at home and abroad, which Sir John had been previously forming, were put into execution.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
You had endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He had wanted very much to go abroad—had been very eager indeed to be allowed to travel—but she would not hear of it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
By God's coif! we are men of peace, but we are free English burghers, not to be mishandled either in our country or abroad.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Do you not know that such a report is spread abroad?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Their dress had every advantage, their faces were rather pretty, their spirits extremely good, their manner unembarrassed and pleasant; they were of consequence at home, and favourites abroad.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
This new moon will light your ninth house of distant travel, so you may take an important trip or talk on the phone a great deal with executives abroad.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
