External vs Abroad - What's the difference?
external | abroad |
Outside of something; on the exterior.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
* Trench
Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.
(anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.
(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, :
As an adjective external
is outside of something; on the exterior.As an adverb abroad is
(dated) at large; widely; broadly; over a wide space .As a noun abroad is
(rare) countries or lands abroad .As a preposition abroad is
throughout, over.external
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This building has some external pipework.
- Of all external things, / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
- Her virtues graced with external gifts.
- The external circumstances are greatly different.
- external''' trade or commerce; the '''external relations of a state or kingdom
Antonyms
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* * * English words suffixed with -alabroad
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.