About is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABOUT in dictionary:

VERB:
• On all sides; around.
• In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
• Here and there; around; in one place and another.
• Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time.
• To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one\'s self about.
PREPOSITION:
• so as to affect
• used to describe a quality apparent in a person
• on the subject of; concerning
• used to indicate movement within a particular area
• used to express location in a particular place
• used to indicate movement within an area
• (used with a number or quantity) approximately
• Around; all round; on every side of.
• In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one\'s person).
• Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
• Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity.
• In concern with; engaged in; intent on.
• On the point or verge of; going; in act of.
• Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching.
ADVERB:
• approximately
• nearly, approximately
• (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
• all around or on all sides
• in the area or vicinity
• used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
• in or to a reversed position or direction
• in rotation or succession
• (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
ADJECTIVE:
• on the move

Words related to ABOUT

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Words that contain ABOUT

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How to use ABOUT in a sentence

• Still, I do get a little, and I like to have the children about me.
• I could almost see him slapping his leg and laughing that great laugh of his, as he read about my theft of the bicycle and my wild dash down the hill past the warder.
• It is about twenty-three miles from east to west, and twelve from north to south.
• It happened just about then that the arrears of rent for the village hotel had so accumulated on Mr.
• I cannot see why we are to teach the young about the past and not about the present.
• Marie on the ice with a train, about the 1st of April.
• Well, on Sunday we sent Warrigal out to meet one of our telegraphs at a place about twenty miles off, and to bring us any information he could pick up and a newspaper.
• Should any food have been left about, what with the rats and the cats, not a trace of it will be seen in the morning.
• All have agreed in admiring many of the Irish views, as those about the Lakes of Killarney, for instance, which are beautiful alike in general effect and in nicety of detail.
• The first morning I took to the fiddle I was about to give myself up to government at once.
• Here was a pretty predicament! And the most ominous feature about it appeared to him to be the deliberation with which his captor had acted.
• James spent the next day hovering about in the hope that an opportunity would offer of getting the key in his possession for a few moments.
• The band, a large one, consisted almost entirely of boys about fifteen years of age.
• The ladies walked about the suite of rooms for about half an hour, taking chocolate, and waiting for the Crown Princess, who soon arrived.
• About 1803 she broke off all connection with the Prince, retiring from the Court with an annuity of 6,000 pounds.
• Honore, for about a fortnight, before going on to Havre in company with old Mr.
• The prince accepts the invitation, but requires his majesty to retire to some distant place, that his own guards may be quartered about the palace and city.
• He was about to touch her with his fingers, but drew back, as it was quite unnecessary.
• The jury consulted together about five minutes and then turned to the Court.
• The acres have been added to until about sixty are covered with growing trees.
• I had been walking about all the morning, not knowing what to do, when I saw the card in this window saying that there was a room to let.
• It will take about three hours to explore the town thoroughly and study the life.
• The water runs into the Eden at the distance of about a mile or two from Staincroft Bridge.
• His writing establishment is about as plain as yours.
• Applied ornament has an indefinite range and there would be little profit in reasoning about it.
• It is just what they have, all the while, been trying to bring about.

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