abroadadverb [ after verb ]
uk/əˈbrɔːd/us/əˈbrɑːd/abroad adverb [ after verb ] (OTHER COUNTRY)
B1 in or to a foreign country or countries:
He's currently abroad on business.
We always go abroad in the summer.
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- After her divorce she went to live abroad.
- He wanted the best for his children - good schools, a nice house and trips abroad.
- We have two grown-up children, both of whom live abroad.
- They decided to move abroad and make a fresh start.
- Some very well-known British football players have gone to clubs abroad.
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Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation
- Afro
- citizenship
- compatriot
- countrywide
- homegrown
- homeland
- internation
- land
- mother country
- motherland
- nation-state
- national
- offshore
- soil
- South Sudan
- state
- state-controlled
- statehood
- stateless
- subject
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abroad adverb [ after verb ] (OUTSIDE)
[ after verb ] literary or old use outside, or not at home:
Not a soul was abroad that morning.
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General location and orientation
- -oriented
- about
- along
- anterior
- around
- back onto sth
- far
- front
- frontal
- hind
- left-hand
- nearside
- offside
- on-site
- orientated
- overleaf
- position
- round
- side-on
- spot
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abroad adverb [ after verb ] (GOING AROUND)
[ after verb ] formal used to say that ideas, feelings, and opinions are shared by many people:
There's a rumour abroad that she intends to leave the company.
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Knowledge and awareness
- acquaintance
- as every schoolboy/schoolchild knows idiom
- at/in the back of your mind idiom
- awareness
- be ahead of the game idiom
- consciousness
- familiarity
- firsthand
- general knowledge
- given
- glimpse
- grounding
- have a nodding acquaintance with sb/sth idiom
- literacy
- loop
- omniscient
- perception
- perceptual
- reflexivity
- schoolboy
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