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Word: abreast (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adverb:

  • Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted
  • nautical Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; ? with ''of''.
  • obsolete: At the same time; simultaneously
  • Side by side, facing forward, with breasts in a line; as,
  • Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep '''abreast''' of [or with] the present state of science.

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