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əˈbrɔːd ]
[
UK
əˈbrɔːd ]
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Adverb

1. In or to a foreign country or countries.

Please don't go abroad without travel insurance.

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2. In different directions; over a wide area.

So the Lord scattered them abroad from that place upon the face of all the earth.

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3. (of a feeling or rumour) widely current.

First, there may be an entrepreneurial spirit increasingly abroad in Sweden and its cultural industries that has led to a wave of start-ups.

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4. Freely moving about.

hospital inmates abroad on the streets of the town

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5. Out of doors.

few people ventured abroad from their warm houses

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6. Wide of the mark; in error.

Noun

1. Foreign countries considered collectively.

servicemen returning from abroad

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Origin

1. Middle English from a-‘on’ + broad.

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