Word Meanings - ABROAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior. 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James',

Additional info about word: ABROAD

1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior. 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn. 3. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay. 4. Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely. He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. Mark i. 45. To be abroad. To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. To be at a loss or nonplused.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABROAD)

• Abroach
• Aflow
• afloat
• abroad
• revealed
• drift
• Loose
• agog
• abroach
• distracted
• disordered
• Afar
• Abroad
• away
• aloof
• Afloat
• Adrift
• at sea
• loose
• dazed
• Agog
• astir
• adrift
• agoing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ABROAD)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to ABROAD)

• AGOUARA
  The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• AGO
  Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago. (more info) by, AS. agan to pass away; a- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• AGONY
  1. Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. 2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• DAZZLEMENT
  Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• ASTIR
  Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.
• ALOOF
  See ALEWIFE
• AFLOW
  Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• DRIFTPIN
  A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
• DRIFTLESS
  Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• AGOING
  In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.
• DRIFTAGE
  1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• ISAGOGE
  An introduction. Harris.
• HIPPOPHAGOUS
  Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars.
• LAGOON
  1. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. 2. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. Lagoon
• PHAGOCYTE
  A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up , in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.
• EMENAGOGUE
  See EMMENAGOGUE
• HARPAGON
  A grappling iron.
• VAGOUS
  Wandering; unsettled. Ayliffe.
• BEDAZZLE
  To dazzle or make dim by a strong light. "Bedazzled with the sun." Shak.
• GALACTOPHAGOUS
  Feeding on milk.
• PENDRAGON
  A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.
• PARAGOGE
  The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.
• MYSTAGOGIC; MYSTAGOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.
• MELANAGOGUE
  A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
• SAGOIN
  A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• GEOPHAGOUS
  Earth-eating.