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how

UK/haʊ/ US/huː/ very common informal us

adverb

1.

to what extent or amount or degree

  • “how tall is she?”
2.

in what way or manner or by what means (`however'' is sometimes used as an intensive form of `how'')

  • “how did you catch the snake?”
  • “he told us how he did it”
  • “however did you get here so soon?”
Synonyms

Origin

From Middle English how, hou, hu, hwu, from Old English hū, from Proto-West Germanic *hwō, from Proto-Germanic *hwō (“through what, how”), from the same root as hwæt (“who, what”).

Phrases

  • a straw shows how the wind blows
  • and how
  • any old how
  • ask how high when someone says jump
  • boo how doy
  • die how one lived
  • die just how one lived
  • don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks

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