Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent.
- v. To border upon or end at; be next to.
- v. To support as an abutment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To touch at the end; be contiguous; join at a border or boundary; terminate; rest: with on, upon, or against before the object: as, his land abuts upon mine; the building abuts on the highway; the bridge abuts against the solid rock.
- In ship-building, same as butt
- To cause to terminate against or in contiguity with; project, or cause to impinge upon.
- Sometimes shortened to but.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with
on ,upon , oragainst .
WordNet 3.0
- v. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
Etymologies
- Middle English abutten, from Old French abouter, to border on (a-, to from Latin ad-; see ad- + bouter, to strike; see bhau- in Indo-European roots) and from Old French abuter, to end at (from but, end; see butt4). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What political operatives do not want to talk abut is how few voters can possibly be affected by a campaign.”
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“I don’t recall him ever uttering a word abut mitocondria, or genetic clocks.”
“I'm almost certain that I won't be able to be part of that "you" he was talking abut, which is why I feel some envy in the best sense of the word: in admiration for your work and your future, your inspiring struggle and your feelings.”
“Oh – a – he will have left word abut the car in any case.”
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“You must get lots of questions abut Rob and Kristen.”
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“We all can come up with our own opinions abut what he might actually be.”
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“At Saturday's lunch, Quincy Jones noticed the pin I was wearing on my lapel, a reproduction of the Henry Mancini stamp, and we both reminisced abut how much we miss the great composer.”
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