English Explanatory Dictionary

at

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep
  1. In, near, or in the general vicinity of (a particular place).
  2. Attending (an educational institution).
  3. Working for (a company) or in (a place or situation).
  4. Indicating distance or direction relative to the speaker.
  5. Present or taking place during (an event).
  6. Indicating time of occurrence, especially an instant of time, or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker’s perspective.
  7. (also as at; before dates) On (a particular date).
  8. In the direction of; towards; (often implied to be in a hostile or careless manner).
  9. Indicating action bearing upon something, especially continued or repeated action.
  10. In response or reaction to.
  11. Occupied in (activity).
  12. In a state of.
noun
  1. The at sign (@).
verb
  1. Rare form of @; to reply to or talk to someone, either online or face-to-face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
pron
  1. Alternative form of 'at (relative pronoun; reduced form of “that” and/or “what”).
noun
  1. Alternative form of att (Laos currency unit)
noun
  1. Initialism of assistive technology.
  2. Initialism of auxiliary tugboat.
  3. Initialism of anaerobic threshold.
  4. Initialism of alternate timeline.
  5. Initialism of aerotriangulation.
  6. Initialism of appropriate technology.
  7. Abbreviation of air tanker.
  8. Initialism of activity theory.
  9. Ukrainian initialism of акціонерне товариство (akcionerne tovarystvo, “JSC”)
adj
  1. Initialism of antitank.

Pronunciation

/æt/ en-us-at.ogg /ət/

Word forms

at ats atting atted

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Germanic *at Old English æt Middle English at English at From Middle English at, from Old English æt (“at, near, by, toward”), from Proto-West Germanic *at, from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, near, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognate with Scots at (“at”), North Frisian äät, äit, et, it (“at”), Danish at (“to”), Swedish åt (“for, toward”), Norwegian åt (“to”), Faroese at (“at, to, toward”), Icelandic að (“to, towards”), Gothic 𐌰𐍄 (at, “at”), Latin ad (“to, near”).

Related words

HEAT AP ATGM ATGW ATF LAT VLAT SEAT

Derived words

at bank atmark atone atonement Atwater eat away at hereat thereat whereat where it's at

Translations

Albanian: në Arabic: عِنْد Arabic: عند Arabic: فِي Arabic: عِنْدَ Arabic: في Belarusian: у Belarusian: ў Belarusian: пры Belarusian: каля́ Breton: e Breton: da Bulgarian: при Bulgarian: до Bulgarian: на Bulgarian: у Bulgarian: в Bulgarian: във Bulgarian: през Burmese: မှာ Burmese: ၌ Catalan: a Chinese Cantonese: 喺 Chinese Cantonese: 在 Chinese Mandarin: 在 Czech: u Czech: při Czech: v Danish: på Dutch: op Dutch: bij Dutch: om Esperanto: ĉe Esperanto: je Faroese: í Faroese: á Faroese: hjá Faroese: til Finnish: -lla Finnish: -ssa Finnish: luona Finnish: tykönä Finnish: -lta Finnish: -ltä Finnish: -na French: à French: en Galician: en German: an German: auf German: bei German: in German: zu German: um Gothic: 𐌰𐍄 Greek: στον Greek: στη Greek: στο Greek: στους Greek: στις Greek: στα Hebrew: אֵצֶל Hindi: पर Hindi: में Hindi: से Hungarian: -n Hungarian: -on Hungarian: -en Hungarian: -nál Hungarian: -kor Icelandic: í Icelandic: á Ido: ye Interlingua: a Interlingua: apud Interlingua: in Irish: ag Irish: ar Italian: a Italian: in Japanese: ...で Japanese: ... に Japanese: ...に Korean: ...에서 Korean: ...에 Central Kurdish: لە Northern Kurdish: li Lao: ທີ່ Latgalian: pi Latin: locative case Latin: ad Latin: apud Latvian: pie Lithuanian: locative case Lithuanian: pas Lithuanian: prie Macedonian: во Macedonian: на Macedonian: кај Macedonian: при Malay: di Malay: dekat Malay: pada Manchu: ᡩᡝ
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