with
/wɪθ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.85 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep
prep
In addition to; as an accessory to.
prep
Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
prep
In support of.
prep
prep
To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
Obsolete
prep
Using as an instrument; by means of.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He went with his friends."
- "No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness."
- "She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar."
- "Jim was listening to Bach with his eyes closed."
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”). In Middle English, the word shifted to denote association rather than opposition, displacing Middle English mid (“with”), from Old English mid (“with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi; an earlier model of this meaning shift exists in cognate Old Norse við; elsewhere, the converse meaning shift is exemplified by Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩺𐩬 (byn, “between, amid”) spawning Old South Arabian 𐩨𐩬 (bn, “against”) and even likewise frequent reverse meaning 𐩨𐩬 (bn, “from”). The adverb sense is probably a semantic loan from various other Germanic languages, such as German mit, Norwegian med, and Swedish med.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /wɪθ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
wyth (alternative)
whith (alternative)
wᵗʰ (alternative)
wᵗ (alternative)
w/ (alternative)
w (alternative)
whit (alternative)
wi' (alternative)
wit (alternative)
wit' (alternative)
wid (alternative)
wif (alternative)