Usually means: Consist of; be made up.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. comprise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. comprise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comprise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comprise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. comprise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Comprise, comprise: Wordnik
  7. comprise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. comprise: Wiktionary
  9. comprise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. comprise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. comprise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Comprise, comprise: Dictionary.com
  13. comprise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. comprise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Comprise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Comprise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. comprise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. comprise: Rhymezone
  19. comprise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. comprise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. comprise: Free Dictionary
  22. comprise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. comprise: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. comprise: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comprise: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comprise: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comprise: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
▸ verb:  (sometimes proscribed, usually in the passive) To compose; to constitute.
▸ verb:  To contain or embrace.
▸ verb:  (patent law) To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.

Similar:
consist of, incorporate, consist in, contain, constitute, represent, be, make up, comprize, compose, more...

Opposite:
exclude, omit, subtract, eliminate, remove

Types:
include, comprise of, consist of, be made up of, more...

Phrases:
boisson (non) comprise, boisson comprise, comprise of, they comprise a route, they comprise eons, more...

Adjectives:
latter, former, elderly, present, first, above, foregoing, last, poor, chinese, whole


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Similar:
consist of, incorporate, consist in, contain, constitute, represent, be, make up, comprize, compose, more...

Opposite:
exclude, omit, subtract, eliminate, remove

Types:
include, comprise of, consist of, be made up of, more...

Phrases:
boisson (non) comprise, boisson comprise, comprise of, they comprise a route, they comprise eons, component comprise constitute, component comprise, comprise opposite, more...

Adjectives:
latter, former, elderly, present, first, above, foregoing, last, poor, chinese, whole



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