Definition/Meaning of with

• English - Preposition: with Against . He picked a fight with the class bully. 1621, John Smith, The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia: 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. In the company of; alongside , close to; near to. He went with his friends. 1897 December (indicated as…
• English - Adverb: with (not comparable) (US, informal, not comparable, regional) Along , together with others, in a group, etc. Do you want to come with ?
• English - Noun: with (plural withs) (alternative) Alternative form of withe . 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 16:7: And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
• English - Anagrams: whit , Whit
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. 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…