Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Overseas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Foreign; from beyond the sea.
- To or in a place beyond the sea; abroad.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Over the sea; abroad.
- adjective Beyond the sea; foreign.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chiefly UK Alternative spelling of
overseas . - adverb chiefly UK Alternative spelling of
overseas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being or passing over or across the sea
- adverb beyond or across the sea
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Examples
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So do not worry if it looks different from what you usually see in oversea's movies.
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So do not worry if it looks different from what you usually see in oversea's movies.
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For those who are already in oversea and live comfortably.
British Books for Malaysian Schools Sharon Bakar 2005
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Don't come back unless you are really suffering in oversea.
British Books for Malaysian Schools Sharon Bakar 2005
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There I saw the latest fashion in "oversea" hair cuts.
Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919
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Gingrich, O'Reilly, Hannity, Rove) call his oversea forays "apology tours."
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Baldekin was an exceedingly rich silk, originally made at Constantinople: it was now manufactured in England also, but the "oversea" article was the more valuable, the baldekin of Cyprus holding first rank.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Doesn't he kind of oversea operations in Pakistan right now?
Jihad Monitor 2010
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Doesn't he kind of oversea operations in Pakistan right now?
Jihad Monitor 2010
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December 4th, 2009 11: 30 pm ET congress and the white house every time they come up with another stupid idea they have to have a new committee to talk about starting a new committee to oversea the other committee.
Officials: President likes plan to use bailout money to pay for jobs 2009
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