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General dictionaries General (40 matching dictionaries)
  1. about: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. about: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. about: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. about: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. About: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. about: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. about: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. about: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. About, about: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. about: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. about: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. about: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. about: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  14. AbOUT (magazine), About (musical artist), About: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. about: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  16. About: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. about: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. about: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. ABOUT: CMU Pronouncing [home, info]
  20. about: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  21. about');: Langtolang English from/to French dictionary [home, info]
  22. about: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. about: Virdainas - a Sudovian Dictionary [home, info]
  24. about: MyWord.info [home, info]
  25. About: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
  26. about: Dict.cc Englisch/Deutsch Wörterbuch [home, info]
  27. about: General English-Spanish [home, info]
  28. about: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  29. about: bab.la [home, info]
  30. about: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  31. about: Langtolang [home, info]
  32. about: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  33. about: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  34. about: Online Talking Dictionary [home, info]
  35. about: UltraLingua French Dictionary [home, info]
  36. ABOUT: Urdu/English Dictionary [home, info]
  37. about: Eurodict Online [home, info]
  38. About: UVic Writer's Guide [home, info]
  39. about: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
  40. about: Lexical FreeNet (shows word connections) [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. About: Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. about: Chaiban Business Dictionary [home, info]
  2. About: Glossary of Gifted Education [home, info]
  3. about: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. about: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABOUT: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
  2. about: Idioms [home, info]
  3. about: Martin's Norwegian Genealogy Dictionary [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. about: Mennonite Low German Dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. about: A German-to-English dictionary for algebra students [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. about: English-French Aeronautical Glossary [home, info]
  2. About: Search Engine Dictionary [home, info]
  3. about: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [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")

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Phrases that include about:   come about, man about town, knock about, think about, muck about, more...

Words similar to about:   almost, approximately, near, roughly, some, around, astir, circa, most, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh, all but, anent, close, close to, concerning, inre, just about, more...


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