adverb (especially BrE)
1 in or to a foreign country:
to be / go / travel / live abroad * She worked abroad for a year. * imports of cheap food from abroad * He was famous, both at home and abroad (= in his own country and in other countries). * For a holiday abroad you need a valid passport.
2 (formal) being talked about or felt by many people:
There was news abroad that a change was coming.
3 (old use) outside; outdoors
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for abroad is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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