Usually means: Method or manner of doing.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word how:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. how: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. how, how: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. how: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. how: Collins English Dictionary
  5. how: Vocabulary.com
  6. HOw, How, How, how, how, how, how: Wordnik
  7. how: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. How, how: Wiktionary
  9. how: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. how: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. how: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. HOW (T), HOW: Dictionary.com
  13. how (adv.), how (interj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. how: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. HOW (magazine), HOW, How (TV series), How (book), How (greeting), How (surname), How (video game), How: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. How: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. how: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. how: Rhymezone
  19. how: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. how: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. how: Free Dictionary
  22. how: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. how: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. How: Wordnik

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. HOW (T), HOW: Acronym Finder
  3. HOW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. how: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. H.O.W, how: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (interrogative) To what degree or extent.
adverb:  (interrogative) In what manner:
adverb:  By what means.
adverb:  With overtones of why, for what reason.
adverb:  In any manner in which; in whatever way; however.
adverb:  In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
adverb:  With what meaning or effect.
adverb:  By what title or what name.
adverb:  At what price, for what amount (of money).
adverb:  (interrogative) In what state or condition.
adverb:  (exclamative) Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.
noun:  The means by which something is accomplished.
noun:  (dialectal) An artificial barrow or tumulus; in later folklore, associated with fairies.
noun:  (dialectal) A small hill in northern England.
noun:  (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter H.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A town in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States, named after Calvin F. How Jr.
noun:  A hamlet in Hayton parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5056).

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