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abroad

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Is abroad a Scrabble word?

Yes, abroad is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of abroad?

Definition

adv (English)

1. (dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space.Examples: "A tree spreads its branches abroad."; ""Faither!" I cried as I undid the bolt and pushed the leaves of the door abroad, "Faither, ye are welcome hame!""datednot-comparable

2. (dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode.Examples: "I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad."; "Again: The lonely fox roams far abroad, / On ſecret rapine bent and midnight fraud; […]"; "She spoke to Strickland in a language of her own, and whenever in her walks abroad she saw things calculated to destroy the peace of Her Majesty the Queen Empress, she returned to her master and gave him information."datednot-comparable

3. (dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction.Examples: "This Peece, or Schisme of Suicisme, and Selfishnesse, hath spawned most of the Heresies and Schismes, that are abroad in the World."; "But he went out, and beganne to publish it much, and to blase abroad the matter: insomuch that Iesus could no more openly enter into the citie, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from euery quarter."datednot-comparable

4. (sports) Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.not-comparable

noun (English)

1. (rare, Scotland) Countries or lands abroad.Examples: "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."Scotlandrare

adj (English)

1. (nonstandard, chiefly non-native speakers' English) International.Examples: "[...] much shorter than an abroad trip at eight nights although the average spending per person night is only slightly less on a US trip than an abroad trip, $37 compared with $41. Around half of Canadian trips to other countries are to Europe."; "[...] an abroad trip was going to raise some heat in the town, amongst our relatives. My family has always been the pioneers of middle-classism. My mother has still never owned a diamond."; "[...] as her father had an abroad trip, he had dropped her mother here."nonstandardnot-comparable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "abroad"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "abroad"?

Scrabble
9 points
A1
B3
R1
O1
A1
D2
Words With Friends
10 points
A1
B4
R1
O1
A1
D2

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