abroadadv/əˈbɹɔːd/

• 1

  Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.

  • 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.
• 2

  datedAt large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.

  • 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!"
• 3

  datedWithout a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.

  • 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; […]
• 4

  datedBefore the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.

  • 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.
• 5

  Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.

• 6

  hobbieslifestylesportsPlayed elsewhere than one's home grounds.

abroadnoun/əˈbɹɔːd/

• 1

  rareCountries or lands abroad.

  • I hate abroad, abroad’s bloody.
  • I am not, however, a xenophobe: obviously, abroad has some good ideas—arranged marriages, violent revolutions and so on.

abroadprep/əˈbɹɔːd/

• 1

  Throughout, over.

abroadadj/əˈbɹɔːd/

• 1

  International.

  • [...] much shorter than an abroad trip at eight nights although the average spending per person night is only slightly less on a US trip than an abroad trip, $37 compared with $41. Around half of Canadian trips to other countries are to Europe.
  • [...] an abroad trip was going to raise some heat in the town, amongst our relatives. My family has always been the pioneers of middle-classism. My mother has still never owned a diamond.