Definition of Abroad

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Abroad

At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.

Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad.

Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.

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Abroad Quotations

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Ronald Reagan

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
Lao Tzu

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Saint Augustine

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
Marcus Garvey

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Abroad Translations

abroad in Danish is udenfor
abroad in Dutch is in het buitenland
abroad in Finnish is ulkomailla
abroad in Italian is all'estero, in ogni direzione
abroad in Norwegian is utenfor, utenlands
abroad in Portuguese is no exterior
abroad in Spanish is en el extranjero, fuera
abroad in Swedish is utlandet, utomlands, utrikes

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