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abroad

abroad: listen to American pronunciation/əˈbrɔd/ adv [not gradable]

Definition

in or to a foreign country or countries:
They used to go abroad every summer.
(Definition of abroad adv from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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