[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/abroad/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [A](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/a/) / abroad # abroad adverb (abroad); noun (from abroad) «abroad» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition and Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. Abroad means in or to a foreign country, one that is not your own: go abroad, live abroad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abroad/#m1) 2. «From abroad» means coming from another country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abroad/#m2) ### In the lessons In everyday life: families go abroad on holiday, which needs passports, sometimes visas, and changing money into another currency (a maths topic: exchange rates). In geography lessons, pupils compare their country with places abroad. Safety: when travelling abroad, stay close to adults, know the name of your hotel, and learn the local emergency number. Phrases: go abroad, live abroad, travel abroad, study abroad, from abroad, at home and abroad. ### Examples - We are going abroad this summer, to France. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abroad/#x1) - My uncle lives abroad in Japan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abroad/#x2) - You need a passport to travel abroad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abroad/#x3) - Our class has pen pals from abroad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abroad/#x4) - Many children from abroad join our school and learn English. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abroad/#x5) - When you go abroad, the money may be different. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abroad/#x6) ### Note Adverb: say «go abroad», not «go to abroad». No plural, no «a/an». For people in Britain, Ireland or Australia, crossing the sea is going abroad; for Americans, people often say «overseas» or «out of the country». ## In Jewish tradition In Lamentations "abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is the like of death" pictures war outside and death inside the house. In Proverbs, springs "dispersed abroad" are a picture of blessings that flow out to others. In the primary lessons: In everyday life: families go abroad on holiday, which needs passports, sometimes visas, and changing money into another currency (a maths topic: exchange rates). In geography lessons, pupils compare their country with places abroad. Safety: when travelling abroad, stay close to adults, know the name of your hotel, and learn the local emergency number. Phrases: go abroad, live abroad, travel abroad, study abroad, from abroad, at home and abroad. ### Examples - But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing, (Torah LEV.13.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abroad/#x1) - Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. (Torah DEU.23.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abroad/#x2) - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. (Torah EXO.1.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abroad/#x3) - Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is the like of death. (Writings LAM.1.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abroad/#x4) - Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets. (Writings PRO.5.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abroad/#x5) - And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron. (Writings 2CH.29.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abroad/#x6) ### Note Adverb: say «go abroad», not «go to abroad». No plural, no «a/an». For people in Britain, Ireland or Australia, crossing the sea is going abroad; for Americans, people often say «overseas» or «out of the country». ## Early Modern English ### Meaning Spread around in many places, or out of doors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/#m1) ### Then and now Today it means in or to a foreign country. Here it means spread about, around, or outside, and the sentences use that old sense. ### Examples - But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing, (Torah LEV.13.35, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/#x1) - “They are gone abroad,” said the other. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/#x2) - Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. (Torah DEU.23.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/#x3) ### Note Today: outside; far and wide. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «abroad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abroad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«abroad» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/abroad.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «abroad» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abroad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«abroad» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/abroad.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «abroad» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«abroad» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/abroad.html) on Mova free.