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extensive
English
Etymology
From late Middle English, borrowed from Late Latin extens?vus, from Latin extensus.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?ks?t?n.s?v/
Adjective
extensive (comparative more extensive, superlative most extensive)
- having a great extent; covering a large area; vast
- (figuratively) considerable in amount.
- I have done extensive research on the subject.
- Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension
- (physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
Derived terms
- extensive property
Related terms
- extend
- extense
- extent
Translations
See also
- intensive
French
Adjective
extensive
- feminine singular of extensif
Latin
Adjective
ext?ns?ve
- vocative masculine singular of ext?ns?vus
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abroad
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)
- Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470.)]
- (dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350.)]
- (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.
- 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Return of Imray
- (dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
- Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed. [First attested in the early 19th century.]
- (sports) Played elsewhere than one's home grounds.
Derived terms
- be abroad
Translations
Noun
abroad
- (rare) Countries or lands abroad. [First attested in the mid 19th 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.
- 1929, King George V, widely (and variously) quoted:
Derived terms
- near abroad
Translations
Preposition
abroad
- 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
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