Exit vs Abroad - What's the difference?
exit | abroad |
A way out.
A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
The action of leaving.
Death.
(dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.
* 1718 , , Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions
(senseid)(dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.
* , Frederic Warne and Company (publisher, 1818), [http://books.google.com/books?id=0DgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=abroad page 207], entry for 1650 July 7:
* 1900 , , Chapter I:
Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries.
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* (rfdate) :
(dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.
* (rfdate) Mark 1-45:
Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed.
Played elsewhere than one's home grounds; as in a sport's team.
(rare) Countries or lands abroad.
* 1929 , , widely (and variously) quoted:
* in , Volumes 3–4, page 180:
* 2001 March 13, :
* "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
As nouns the difference between exit and abroad
is that exit is a way out while abroad is countries or lands abroad.As a verb exit
is to go out.As an adverb abroad is
at large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.As a preposition abroad is
throughout, over.exit
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was looking for the exit and got lost .
- She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside .
- He made his exit at the opportune time .
- The untimely exit of a consummate politician .
Synonyms
* (a way out) egress, outgang, outway * (the action of leaving) egress, outgoing, departureDerived terms
* emergency exit * exit interview * exit policy * exit poll * exit program * exit strategy * exit wound * fire exitSee also
* exit stage left ----abroad
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- A tree spreads its branches abroad .
- Again: The lonely fox roams far abroad , / On ?ecret rapine bend and midnight fraud;
- to walk abroad
- I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad .
- 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?
- Another prince
- He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter.
Synonyms
* overseasDerived terms
* be abroadNoun
- I hate abroad', ' abroad ’s bloody.
- I am not, however, a xenophobe: obviously, abroad has some good ideas—arranged marriages, violent revolutions and so on.
- 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.
