as
/ˈæs/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.77 in modern English
2
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).
conj
At the time that; during the time when:
Example Sentences
- "She regards her kids as (being) holy as saints."
- "You’re not as tall as I am, but you are definitely as happy as can be."
- "It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive."
- "In 1939, as in 1914, all of Europe seemed to want war."
- "“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”"
- "She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-West Germanic *all Proto-Indo-European *swéder.? Proto-Germanic *swa Proto-West Germanic *swā Proto-West Germanic *allswā Old English eallswā Middle English also Middle English as English as From Middle English as, als(a), alswa, from Old English eallswā (“just so; as”), thus representing a reduced form of also. Compare German Low German a(l)s, German als, Dutch als.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂el-, as, eallswā, عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ
Usage
- Dated
- Formal
- Obsolete
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
- Slang
- British usage
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Phrases
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Synonyms
as
as long as
because
being
being as
being that
due to the fact that
for
for that
forasmuch as
forthy
forwhy