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Meaning of at in English
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Grammar
Time expressions without at, on, in
We don’t normally use at, on or in before time expressions beginning with each, every, next, last, some, this, that, one, any, all: …Idioms
(Definition of at from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
at | American Dictionary
at preposition (PLACE/TIME)
I wasn’t here to meet you because I was in Detroit at the time (= then).
at preposition (DIRECTION)
at preposition (CAUSE)
at preposition (CONDITION)
at preposition (AMOUNT)
at preposition (JUDGMENT)
I’m really not very good at math.
at preposition (THE MOST)
(Definition of at from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Translations of at
in Chinese (Traditional)
地方, (表示地點或位置)在…裡, 在…上…
in Chinese (Simplified)
地方, (表示地点或位置)在…里, 在…上…
in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Arabic in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian
in Italian
in Russian
bir şeyin veya birinin konumunu, yerini göstermede kulanılır, ... de…
ở (địa điểm), hướng vào (chỉ hướng), vào lúc…
a, chiocciola (in indirizzi di posta elettronica), verso di…
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Middle English from Old English æt ad- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English at, from Old English æt (“at, near, by, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, near, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”). Cognate with Scots at (“at”), North Frisian äät, äit, et, it (“at”), Danish at (“to”), Faroese at (“at, to, toward”), Norwegian åt (“to”), Swedish åt (“for, toward”), Icelandic að (“to, towards”), Gothic (at, “at”), Latin ad (“to , near”).
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From Wiktionary