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Definition of Abroad

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack Obama

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
James Madison

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

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
John Quincy Adams

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle Obama

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.
Michelle Obama

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
Kofi Annan

My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
Zinedine Zidane

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
Ella Maillart

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
Ella Maillart

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
Arthur Erickson

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
Gene Tierney

It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
Manfred von Richthofen

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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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