Local English word record

close to

adverb · 1 sense

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

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Examples

  • lasted approximately an hour
  • in just about a minute
  • he's about 30 years old
  • I've had about all I can stand
  • we meet about once a month

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Princeton WordNet 3.0