abroad

«abroad» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: outside; far and wide — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

outside; far and wide

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

Spread around in many places, or out of doors. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it means in or to a foreign country. Here it means spread about, around, or outside, and the sentences use that old sense.

examples

• But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing, (Torah LEV.13.35, JPS 1917) tree →
• “They are gone abroad,” said the other. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. (Torah DEU.23.12, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

abroad

tests

manual 10.1; corpora 94 (Torah 23, tales 71, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 8; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 3.2); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.
• So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
• But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad.
• So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
• And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «abroad» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.