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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/#x1)
- “They are gone abroad,” said the other. (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/#x2)
- Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. (Torah DEU.23.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.264/)
- [So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.286/)
- [But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.12/)
- [So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.128/)
- [And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.332/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abroad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/abroad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.