about

/əˈbɑʊt/ prep (CONNECTED WITH)

Definition

› on the subject of; connected with: "What’s that book about?" "It’s about the Civil War." I don’t know what all the fuss is about. There’s something about her attitude that worries me.

(Definition of about prep (CONNECTED WITH) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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abort v END PREGNANCY
abort v STOP
abound v
about adj INTENDING
about adv APPROXIMATELY
about prep CONNECTED WITH
about prep, adj, adv IN THIS PLACE
about-face n
above adv, prep
above all idiom
above pl n

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about adv APPROXIMATELY
about adj INTENDING
about prep, adj, adv IN THIS PLACE
about-face n
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bring about something phrasal verb

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bandy something about phrasal verb
bring about something phrasal verb
cast about phrasal verb
go about something phrasal verb
mill around/about phrasal verb
poke around/about phrasal verb

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(it's) about time idiom
how about doing something, at how about something idiom
what about idiom
up and about idiom
forget (about) it idiom
how about something idiom

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