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We found 41 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word about: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "about" is defined. General (31 matching dictionaries) about: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info] about: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] about: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info] about: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] ABOUT, About, about: Wordnik [home, info] about: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info] About: Wiktionary [home, info] about: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] about: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] about: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] About, about: Dictionary.com [home, info] about: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] about: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] about: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] about: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info] AbOUT (magazine), About (musical artist), About: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] about: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info] About: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] about: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] about: Rhymezone [home, info] about: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] about: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] about: MyWord.info [home, info] About: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info] about: Free Dictionary [home, info] about: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] about: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] about: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] about: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] About: UVic Writer's Guide [home, info] about: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info] Art (2 matching dictionaries) About: Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary [home, info] About: Eastern Philosophy [home, info] Business (2 matching dictionaries) ABouT: Abbreviations in shipping [home, info] about: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) about: Encyclopedia [home, info] Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries) ABOUT: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info] about: Idioms [home, info] Tech (3 matching dictionaries) About: Search Engine Dictionary [home, info] about: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info] About, About: Latitude Mexico [home, info]

Quick definitions (about) ▸ adverb:  in the area or vicinity ("A few spectators standing about") ▸ adverb:  all around or on all sides ("Dirty clothes lying around (or about)") ▸ adverb:  in or to a reversed position or direction ("About face") ▸ adverb:  to or among many different places or in no particular direction ("Wandering about with no place to go") ▸ adverb:  (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for `almost' ("The job is (just) about done") ▸ adverb:  in rotation or succession ("Turn about is fair play") ▸ adverb:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct ("In just about a minute") ▸U.S. pronunciation (credits) ▸ Word origin Test Your Skills -- Try the SAT Question of the Day.