with
//wɪð//
Forms
- Plural
- withs
Definitions
1.Along, together with others, in a group, etc.(informal)
- Do you want to come with?
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.In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
- He went with his friends.
3.In addition to; as an accessory to.
- She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
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.
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
Related words
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”).