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Aboard vs Abroad - What's the difference?

aboard | abroad |

Abroad is a anagram of aboard.



As adverbs the difference between aboard and abroad

is that aboard is on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car while abroad is at large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.

As prepositions the difference between aboard and abroad

is that aboard is on board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane while abroad is throughout, over.

As a noun abroad is

countries or lands abroad.

aboard

English

Adverb

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  • On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
    • We all climbed aboard .
  • On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
    • To sling a saddle aboard .
  • (baseball) On base.
    • He doubled with two men aboard , scoring them both.
  • Into a team, group, or company.
    • The office manager welcomed him aboard .
  • (nautical) Alongside.
    • The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
    to fall aboard of. (also figuratively)

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= , url=http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-british-longitude-act-reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}
    We all went aboard the ship.
  • Onto a horse.
  • (obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
  • * 1591 , Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat
    • Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. -

    Derived terms

    (definitions belong in separate entries) Nautical : * fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. * haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. * keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. * , to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

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    abroad

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
    • A tree spreads its branches abroad .
  • * 1718 , , Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions
    • Again: The lonely fox roams far abroad , / On ?ecret rapine bend and midnight fraud;
  • (senseid)(dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
    • to walk abroad
  • * , Frederic Warne and Company (publisher, 1818), [http://books.google.com/books?id=0DgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=abroad page 207], entry for 1650 July 7:
    • I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad .
  • * 1900 , , Chapter I:
    • Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
  • Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times, url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/opinion/stay-cool-call-north-koreas-bluff.html?_r=0
    • , passage=A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable. }}
  • * (rfdate) :
    • Another prince
  • (dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
  • * (rfdate) Mark 1-45:
    • He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter.
  • Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
  • Played elsewhere than one's home grounds; as in a sport's team.

    • Synonyms

    * overseas

    Derived terms

    * be abroad

    Noun

  • (rare) Countries or lands abroad.
  • * 1929 , , widely (and variously) quoted:
    • I hate abroad', ' abroad ’s bloody.
  • * in , Volumes 3–4, page 180:
    • I am not, however, a xenophobe: obviously, abroad has some good ideas—arranged marriages, violent revolutions and so on.
  • * 2001 March 13, :
    • That is not a xenophobic remark. I am a xenophiliac; I love abroad . I love foreigners. I just do not like the way that they are running the European agricultural policy.

    Derived terms

    * near abroad

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Throughout, over.

    • References

    * "Now abroad has entered English as a noun" - The New York Times , [http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/22/magazine/on-language-the-near-abroad.html "ON LANGUAGE; The Near Abroad"], William Safire, May 22, 1994, quoting Christian Caryl

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