Definition of Into

What does the word Into mean?

• part of speech: noun

  prep. expr. motion or direction to a point within a thing, lit. & fig., as: come i. the garden, throw it i. the fire, look i. the box, the matter, inquire i. it, get i. trouble, come i. (acquire) property, watching far on i. the night; expr. change, condition, result, as: turn stones i. gold, collect them i. heaps, divide them i. three classes, flogged i. submission.