different between abord vs abroad

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b??d/

Etymology 1

From French abord, from aborder (“to aboard”).

Noun

abord (plural abords)

1. (obsolete) The act of approaching or arriving; approach. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 77:

     He entered with an air so immensely conceited and affected, and, at the same Time, so uncommonly bold, that I could scarce stand his Abord […].

2. (rare) A road, or means of approach. [from 17th c.]

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Verb

abord (third-person singular simple present abords, present participle abording, simple past and past participle aborded)

1. Alternative form of aboard

Anagrams

• B road, Bardo, Board, Borda, Broad, Broad., Broda, Dobra, adorb, bardo, board, broad, dobra

French

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from aborder, from Old French aborder (“to hit a ship in order to board it”), from bord (“side of a ship, edge”), from Frankish *bord (“side of a ship or vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *burd? (“edge, border, side”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheredh- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old High German bort (“edge, rim, rand”), Old English bord (“ship, side of a ship”), Old Norse borð (“edge, side of a vessel”). More at board.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.b??/

Noun

abord m (plural abords)

1. (literary) The manner with which one acts in the presence of another person or persons, especially in a first encounter.
2. (rare) The surroundings of a place.
3. (archaic) Arrival or accessibility by water.

Usage notes

• In the sense "surroundings", the word is almost always a pluralia tantum.
• The sense "manner of acting" is usually now perceived as a backformation from aborder (“to approach”), and is most common in the expression être d'un abord and variations of it.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “abord” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• borda
• broda

Middle English

Etymology

From a- +? bord (“exterior of a ship”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?b??rd/

Adverb

abord

1. On board; into or within a ship or boat
2. (nautical) Alongside.

Preposition

abord

1. On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.

Descendants

• English: aboard

References

• “ab?rd, adv. & prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Alternative forms

• abrode (obsolete)

Etymology

First attested in mid 13th century. From Middle English abrood (“broadly widely scattered”), from a- (“on, in”) + brood (“broad”). Equivalent to a- +? broad.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b???d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Adverb

abroad (not comparable)

1. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470.)]
2. (dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350.)]
4. (dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350.)]
   • 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Return of Imray

     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.
5. (dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction. [First attested in the late 15^th century.]
6. Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed. [First attested in the early 19^th century.]
7. (sports) Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.

Derived terms

• be abroad

Translations

Noun

abroad

1. (rare) Countries or lands abroad. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]
   • 1929, King George V, widely (and variously) quoted:

     I hate abroad, abroad’s bloody.

   • 2001 March 13, The Earl of Onslow, speaking in the House of Lords, quoted in Hansard:

     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.

Derived terms

• near abroad

Translations

Preposition

abroad

1. Throughout, over.

Translations

References

• "Now abroad has entered English as a noun" - The New York Times, "ON LANGUAGE; The Near Abroad", William Safire, May 22, 1994, quoting Christian Caryl

Anagrams

• A board, Baroda, aboard, aborad