overseas
/ˌəʊvəˈsiːz/US/ˌoʊvɚˈsiːz/
overseas adjective: abroad, especially across the sea.
Adjective
overseas (not comparable)
- Abroad, especially across the sea.
- Overseas branches of the company are doing well.
- Synonyms:
- transmarine, ultramarine
- Antonyms:
- domestic
- Used with ethnicities, nationalities, or religious affiliations: living (being resident) in a foreign country.
- Overseas Chinese communities exist in North and South America.
- The reputations of our universities and our research base are already under threat because of the fallout from the EU referendum result, which is making the UK an unfriendlier place for overseas scholars and students, as well as cutting off access to an important stream of research funding and to a...2016 October 18, Stephen Curry, “Why the Higher Education and Research Bill must be amended”, in The Guardian
- Across a sea; to or in an area across a sea.
- Her overseas trip went well.
Adverb
overseas (not comparable)
- Abroad.
- He emigrated and now lives overseas.
- Across a sea; to an area across a sea.
- She travelled overseas.
- (We are agents of the free.) I've had my fun,
and now it's time to serve
your conscience overseas.
Coming in fast, over me...1988 November 8, R.E.M., “Orange Crush”, in Green
overseas meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
overseas in Hindi
- overseas, abroad; away from home
- बाहर bāhar
overseas in Tamil
- வெளியூர், வெளிநாடு
overseas in Urdu
- overseas
- غیر ملکی ġair mulkī, بیرون ملک bairūn-i mulk
overseas in Bengali
- overseas, abroad; away from home
- বাহির bahir
More languagesFewer languages
- overseas in Malayalam
- വിദേശത്തേക്കുള്ള, പരദേശീയമായ, കടലിന്നക്കരെയുള്ള
- overseas in Kannada
- ಕಡಲಿನಾಚೆಯ, ಹೊರನಾಡಿನ, ಕಡಲಾಚೆಯ, ಸಾಗರೋತ್ತರದ
- overseas in Punjabi
- باہر bāhar
- overseas in Nepali
- बाहिर bāhira
- overseas in Thai
- โพ้นทะเล póon-tálee, ข้ามทะเล kâam-tálee
- overseas in Vietnamese
- hải ngoại, ngoài nước
Examples of overseas in a sentence
- They were to have been married overseas but COVID forced a change of plans.
- Pearson wanted to dialogue with his overseas counterparts about the new reporting requirements.
- The postage stamps on the letters from overseas were almost as interesting as the letters themselves.
Synonyms of overseas
Antonyms
Forms of overseas
| alternative UK | oversea |
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Origin of overseas
From earlier oversea, equivalent to oversea + -s. Compare West Frisian oerseesk, Dutch overzees, German Übersee, Danish oversøisk.
Words formed from overseas
Phrases with overseas
Words that rhyme with overseas
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
- agrees
Questions about overseas
- What does overseas mean?
- Overseas means abroad, especially across the sea.
- What is overseas in Hindi?
- Overseas in Hindi is बाहर (bāhar). See Overseas meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is overseas?
- Overseas can be an adjective or an adverb.
- How do you pronounce overseas?
- Overseas is pronounced /ˌəʊvəˈsiːz/ (UK).
Words near overseas in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overseas (page history and authors); बाहर (Hindi) (page history and authors); overseas (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بیرون ملک (Urdu) (page history and authors); বাহির (Bengali) (page history and authors); overseas (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overseas (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); باہر (Punjabi) (page history and authors); बाहिर (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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