Associations to the word «Overseas»

Wiktionary

OVERSEAS, adjective. Abroad.
OVERSEAS, adjective. (used with ethnicities, nationalities, or religious affiliations) Living (being resident) in a foreign country.
OVERSEAS, adjective. Across a sea.
OVERSEAS, adverb. Abroad.
OVERSEAS, adverb. Across a sea.
OVERSEAS CAP, noun. Side cap
OVERSEAS CHINESE, noun. A person or people of Chinese ethnicity, living in a non-Chinese country; a member of the ethnic Chinese expatriate or immigrant community; Huaqiao
OVERSEAS TERRITORY, noun. A country or smaller territory which politically is either an integral part of - or in some dependent (e.g. colonial) relationship with another state, but is geographically separated from that 'mother state' by the sea, without bordering it or its coastal waters
OVERSEAS TERRITORY, noun. (legal) A more specific status legally defined under a constitution for one or more of the above territories

Dictionary definition

OVERSEAS, adverb. Beyond or across the sea; "He lived overseas for many years".
OVERSEAS, adverb. In a place across an ocean.
OVERSEAS, adjective. In a foreign country; "markets abroad"; "overseas markets".
OVERSEAS, adjective. Being or passing over or across the sea; "some overseas trade in grain arose".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King