Lernwerd

with

//wɪð//

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Preposition

A word placed before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show its relationship to another part of the sentence.

Note for with

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Forms

Plural
withs

Definitions

Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a clause.

  1. 1.Along, together with others, in a group, etc.(informal)

    • Do you want to come with?

Preposition

A word placed before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show its relationship to another part of the sentence.

  1. 1.Against.

    • He picked a fight with the class bully.
    • Many hatchets, knives, & pieces of iron, & brass, we see, which they reported to have from the Sasquesahanocks a mighty people, and mortal enemies with the Massawomecks.
  2. 2.In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.

    • He went with his friends.
  3. 3.In addition to; as an accessory to.

    • She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
  4. 4.Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.

    • Jim was listening to Bach with his eyes closed.
    • With a heavy sigh, she looked around the empty room.
    • Both armies entered into battle with confidence high.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.Alternative form of withe.

    • And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

Frequency

Overall

Very common· #17

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Common
General reading & writing
Very common
Academic
Uncommon
Literature
Uncommon

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Etymology

From Middle English with, from Old English wiþ (“against, opposite, toward, with”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþi, a shortened form of Proto-Germanic *wiþrą (“against”).

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