Definition of With

What does the word With mean?

• part of speech: preposition

  In antagonism to, against, (fight, quarrel, struggle, dispute, argue, compete, vie, w.); in or into company of or relation to, among, beside, (come, go, walk, cat, live, spend the day, mix t. & i., meet, w.; king is expected w. or together w. queen& court; numbered w. the transgressors; compare w.; have nothing to do w.; deal w.; w. God, dead& in heaven; have w. you archaic, I accept your offer or challenge; so done w. you); agreeably or in harmonious relations to (I feel, think, sympathize, w. you; also with neg. wds in opp. sense, as I disagree w. you; he that is not w. me is against me; vote with the Liberals; blue does not go with green; one w., part of same whole as); having, carrying, possessed of, characterized by, (vase w. handles, man w. sinister expression; walking w. a gun; went out w. no hat on; w. child or young, pregnant); in the care or charge or possession of (have no money w. me; leave child, parcel, w. nurse, porter; it rests w. you to decide; the deal, decanter, next move, is w. you); by use of as instrument or means (cut it with a knife; have no pen to write w.; walks with a crutch; damn w. faint praise); by addition or supply or acquisition or possession of as material (fill it, overflowing, w. water; laden w. baggage; blessed w. beauty; adorn w. frescoes); in same way or direction or degree or at the same time as (changes w. the seasons; varies directly or inversely, increases, w.; rise w. the sun; w. that, thereupon, simultaneously; begin w., take as starting-point); because or by operation of, owing to, (trembles w. fear; is down w. fever; stiff, silent, w. cold, shame); displaying or so as to display, under favourable or unfavourable circumstances of, (heard it with calmness; fought w. courage; won w. ease, difficulty, a good deal to spare; shot well w. a good, wretched, light); in regard to, concerning, in the sphere of, in the mind or view of, (be patient w. him; bear, do, or put up, w., tolerate, be indulgent to; my dealings w. the natives; what do you want w. me?; away, down, up, to the devil, &c., w. him, take or send or put him, he may go, away &c.; can do anything, nothing, w. him, influence orutilize him in any, no, direction; w. God all things are possible; is it well w. thee?; it is holiday time w. us; the first object w. him is; has great influence w. the House); so as to be separated from (part, break, dispense, w.); despite, notwithstanding, the presence of (w. all his learning, he is the simplest of men; w. many admirable qualities, the best of intentions, he failed completely). [old English]

• part of speech: noun

  (pl. -thes pr. -dhiz, or -ths). Tough flexible branch esp. of willow or osier used for binding bundles of wood &c. [old English]