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Abroad vs Within - What's the difference?

abroad | within |

As adverbs the difference between abroad and within

is that abroad is at large; widely; broadly; over a wide space while within is in or into the interior; inside.

As prepositions the difference between abroad and within

is that abroad is throughout, over while within is Indicates spatial enclosure or containment.

As a noun abroad

is countries or lands abroad.

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

    Anagrams

    * *

    within

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows) ,
    • The Rat.
  • * 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
    • England struck back with a fine try from Ben Foden and closed to within seven points with three minutes left when Mark Cueto capitalised on a break from replacement Matt Banahan.
  • Before the specified duration ends.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 9, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC Sport
    • , tyitle= Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , passage=And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes}}

    Antonyms

    * without * outside * outwith

    Statistics

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    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in or into the interior; inside