At Home Abroad — Infobox Musical name= At Home Abroad subtitle=A Musical Holiday caption= music= Arthur Schwartz lyrics= Howard Dietz book= basis= productions= 1935 Broadway awards= At Home Abroad is a revue with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard… … Wikipedia
Abroad — A*broad , adv. [Pref. a + broad.] 1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. [1913 Webster] The fox roams far abroad. Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Home Thoughts From Abroad — is a song by Clifford Ward. The name of the song is taken from a poem by Robert Browning. [ [http://www.englishverse.com/poems/home thoughts from abroad Home Thoughts, from Abroad, by Robert Browning ] ] References … Wikipedia
Home — (h[=o]m; 110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS. h[=a]m; akin to OS. h[=e]m, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. k[ e]mas, and perh. to Gr. kw mh village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Home department — Home Home (h[=o]m; 110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS. h[=a]m; akin to OS. h[=e]m, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. k[ e]mas, and perh. to Gr. kw mh village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
home front — n [singular] the people who stay and work in their own country while others go abroad to fight in a war on the home front ▪ The film is set on the home front in 1943 … Dictionary of contemporary English
abroad — (adv.) mid 13c., widely apart, from O.E. on brede, which meant something like at wide (see BROAD (Cf. broad) (adj.)). The sense out of doors, away from home (late 14c.) led to the main modern sense of out of one s country, overseas (mid 15c.) … Etymology dictionary
home front — home′ front n. mil the civilian sector of a nation at war when its armed forces are in combat abroad • Etymology: 1915–20 home′ front , adj … From formal English to slang
abroad — [adj] in a foreign country away, elsewhere, in foreign lands, in foreign parts, out of the country, overseas, touring, traveling; concept 583 Ant. at home … New thesaurus
home front — home front, adj. the civilian sector of a nation at war when its armed forces are in combat abroad. [1915 20] * * * … Universalium
