# abroad

Pronunciation: say "uh-BRAWD" US /əˈbɹɔd/, UK /əˈbɹɔːd/

## Adverb

1. In or to a foreign country, beyond the borders of one's own.
   - Simple: In or to a foreign country, outside your own.
   - _After graduation, he took a job abroad and rarely returned home._
   - _Many students spend a semester abroad to learn a new language._
2. Wide of the mark; mistaken, confused, or wandering away from the truth.
   - Simple: Confused, mistaken, or far from what is correct.
   - _The detective's first theory proved entirely abroad once the new evidence surfaced._
   - _She felt all abroad, unable to recall how she had gotten home._
3. At the opposing team's ground rather than one's own home venue.
   - Simple: At the other team's field, not at your home one.
   - _The side has struggled to win abroad, dropping points at nearly every visiting ground._
   - _Supporters traveled for hours to watch their club play abroad against its closest rivals._

## Preposition

4. Throughout or across the whole extent of a place.
   - Simple: Spread across or through all parts of a place.
   - _A sudden hush fell abroad the great hall as the king entered._
   - _Fear spread abroad the kingdom faster than any messenger could ride._

## Adjective

5. International; relating to or involving more than one country. *(nonstandard)*
   - Simple: International, or having to do with more than one country.
   - _The report focused on abroad investment and cross-border deals._
   - _She specializes in abroad relations between the two nations._

## Noun

6. Foreign lands or countries considered collectively as a single place. *(dialectal, Scotland)*
   - Simple: Foreign countries thought of together as one place.
   - _The young poet idealized the abroad, imagining it freer than home._
   - _Much of her fortune came from trade with the abroad._

## Adverb

7. Out of doors and away from one's own home, without reference to leaving the country. *(dated)*
   - Simple: Outside the house, away from home.
   - _The widow rarely ventured abroad, preferring the quiet of her own parlor._
   - _By dawn the farmers were already abroad, tending to the fields._
8. Circulating among the public; current in society and moving freely without restriction. *(dated)*
   - Simple: Spreading around among people and widely known or talked about.
   - _There was a feeling abroad that change was finally coming._
   - _News of the scandal was soon abroad, repeated in every coffeehouse._
9. Over a wide space; widely and broadly, scattered across a broad extent. *(dated)*
   - Simple: Spread out over a wide area, in many directions.
   - _The sower cast his grain abroad across the freshly turned earth._
   - _The branches of the old oak spread abroad over half the courtyard._

## Origin

First attested in the mid 13th century, from Middle English abrood ("broadly, widely scattered"), formed from a- ("on, in") plus brood ("broad"): that is, a- plus broad.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/abroad (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).