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accost (English)

Etymology

From

frm

accoster, Late Latin accostare to bring side by side; Latin ad + costa rib, side. See coast, and compare accoast.

Pronunciation

- /əˈkɔst/

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Verb

To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

obsolete

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

* So much of Lapland as accosts the sea. - Fuller

- Shakespearian To approach; to come up to

To speak to first; to address; to greet.

* Him, Satan thus accosts - Milton

* 1847, - Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII

*: She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."

obsolete

To adjoin; to lie alongside

* The shores which to the sea accost - Spenser

Derived terms

accostment

Translations

to approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request

Holländska - aanklampen

Finska - vaatia

Latin - affor

Polska - zaczepiać

Ryska - обращаться

, заговаривать

to join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of

Bulgariska - акостирам

to speak to first, to address, to greet

Bulgariska - заговарям

Bulgariska - обръщам се към

Finska - puhutella

, tervehtiä

Latin - affor

Svenska - tilltala

br

: divorañ, dilestrañ, douarañ, abourzhañ

fr

: aborder

de

: sich nähern

ia

: accostar, abordar

it

: indirizzarsi_a

pt

: abordar

- es|acercar|alt=acercarse a

Noun

address|Address; greeting.

J. Morley

Anagrams

coacts#English|coacts

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