As Meaning and Definition

Word: As

How to pronounce: æz

Adverb

Definitions:

1. Used in comparisons to refer to the extent or degree of something.

Example sentences: "Go as fast as you can"

Conjunction

Definitions:

1. Used to indicate that something happens during the time when something is taking place.

Example sentences: "Frank watched him as he ambled through the crowd"

2. Used to indicate by comparison the way that something happens or is done.

Example sentences: "They can do as they wish"

3. Because; since.

Example sentences: "I must stop now as I have to go out"

4. Even though.

Example sentences: "Sweet as he is, he doesn't pay his bills"

Preposition

Definitions:

1. Used to refer to the function or character that someone or something has.

Example sentences: "It came as a shock"

2. During the time of being (the thing specified)

Example sentences: "He had often been sick as a child"

Noun

Definitions:

1. An ancient Roman copper coin.

Example sentences: "The asses and denarii minted by C. Marcius Censorinus show him in profile as a bearded and diademed man."

CrossReference

Definitions:

1. The chemical element arsenic.

Abbreviation

Definitions:

1. American Samoa.

2. Anglo-Saxon.

3. Asperger's syndrome.

4. Associate in Science.

5. Assam.

Synonyms:

like

and

whereas

considering

how

insofar as

how much

inasmuch

inasmuch as

both

since

for

a

when

but

while

though

whilst

because

also

well

equally

now

how many

such as

rather

in what way

that

this way

thus

seeing

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As in Other Languages...

Spanish: Como

German: Als

French: Comme

Italian: Come

Turkish: Olarak