at

• (stressed) enPR: ăt, IPA^(key): /æt/

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  • Rhymes: -æt
  • Homophone: @
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ət/
  • Homophone: it (unstressed; only in some accents)

From Middle English at, from Old English æt (“at, near, by, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, near, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognate with Scots at (“at”), North Frisian äät, äit, et, it (“at”), Danish at (“to”), Swedish åt (“for, toward”), Norwegian åt (“to”), Faroese at (“at, to, toward”), Icelandic að (“to, towards”), Gothic 𐌰𐍄 (at, “at”), Latin ad (“to, near”).

at

1. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.

   Caesar was at Rome;  at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine;  at Jim’s house

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   • 1919, Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "The Life of Cicero", 43 (Bernadotte Perrin, trans.)

     "Hirtius and Pansa, who were good men and admirers of Cicero, begged him not to desert them, and undertook to put down Antony if Cicero would remain at Rome."

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

     (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Today my friend Marsha is at her friend's house.

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2. (indicating time) Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.

   at six o’clock;  at closing time;  at night.

   • 1838, The Family Magazine

     Lafayette was major-general in the American army at the age of 18 […]

   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:

     Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. The UK government will come under pressure to block access to pornographic websites this year when a committee of MPs publishes its report on protecting children online.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Hi, Anne. Are you busy? — Hi, Anna. Yes. At 10 a.m. I am writing.

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3. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).

   He threw the ball at me.  He shouted at her.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

4. Denotes a price.

   3 apples at 2¢ (each)   The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.

5. Occupied in (activity).

   men at work

6. In a state of.

   She is at sixes and sevens with him.  They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.  The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.

7. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.

   Sell at 90.  Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.  I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.

8. Because of.

   to laugh at a joke   mad at their comments

9. Indicates a means, method, or manner.
   • 1995, Richard Klein, Cigarettes are Sublime →ISBN, page 41:

     [...] to be sold at auction for sixty gold francs.

   • 2012, Sami Moubayed, Syria and the USA: Washington's Relations with Damascus →ISBN:

     A few days later, on 1 October, King Hussein opened the Jordanian Parliament by speaking at length about the crisis in Syria,

10. Holding a given speed or rate.

    It is growing at the rate of 3% a year.  Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.

11. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.

    The twins were both bad at chemistry.

    He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.

    • 2015, Sanyan Stories: Favorites from a Ming Dynasty Collection →ISBN, page 157:

      She's good at playing musical instruments, singing and dancing, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

12. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
    • 1995 Keith Wood, quoted in David Hughes, "Wood odds-on to take one against the head", in The Independent (London) 18 January:

      I think `Jesus, my back is at me'. Then I get the ball. Off you go for 10 yards and you don't feel a thing. Then you stop and think: `Jesus, it's at me again'[.]

    • 2014 Marian Keyes "Antarctic Diary - Part 2" personal website (January 2014):

      He seems to be saying. “Ah, go on, you’re making the other lads feel bad.” But the 4th fella says, “No. Don’t be ‘at’ me. I’m just not in the form right now, I’ll stay where I am, thanks.”

• He threw the ball to me — (so I could catch it).
• He threw the ball at me — (trying to hit me with it).

• He talked to her — (conversationally).
• He shouted at her — (aggressively).

at (plural ats)

1. The at sign (@).

at

1. (Northern England, rare, possibly obsolete) Alternative form of 'at (relative pronoun; reduced form of "that")
   • 1860, Robert Gordon Latham, Song of Solomon, as spoken in Durham [by Thomas Moore], in A hand-book of the English language:

     Tak us t' foxes, t' little foxes at spoils t' veynes: fer our veynes hev tender grapes.

at (plural ats or at)

1. Alternative form of att (Laos currency unit)

• T&A, T.A., T/A, TA, ta

From Proto-Turkic *at (“horse”).

at (definite accusative atı, plural atlar)

1. horse

at

1. boy

• IPA^(key): /at/, [æd̥], /a/, [æ]

at

1. that

at

1. to (infinitive-marker)

   Det er menneskeligt at fejle.

   To err is human.

• IPA^(key): /ɑt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑt

at

1. singular past indicative of eten
2. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of atten
3. imperative of atten

at

1. water

• IPA^(key): /ɛaːʰt/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːʰt
• Homophone: æt

From Old Norse at.

at

1. (with dative) at, towards, to

From Old Norse at (“that”), from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”). Cognate with Middle English at (“that”, conjunction and relative pronoun), Scots at (“that”, conjunction and relative pronoun). More at that.

at

1. that

From Old Norse at (“at, to”), from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, to”). More at at.

at

1. to A particle used to mark the following verb as an infinitive.

   At lyfta. ― To lift

From Latin actus; cf. Italian atto.

at m (plural ats)

1. act, action, deed

• azion

at

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄

• IPA^(key): /aːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

at n (genitive singular ats, nominative plural öt)

1. fight

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ɑt̪ˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /at̪ˠ/

From Old Irish att (“swelling, protuberance, tumour”).

at m (genitive singular as substantive ait, genitive as verbal noun ata, nominative plural atanna)

1. swelling
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 11:

     tā at ə l̄āv m inīnə.

     conventional orthography: Tá at i lámh m’iníne.

     My daughter has a swelling on her hand.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 11:

     tā šȧxt n-at i n-ə wunāl.

     conventional orthography: Tá seacht n-at ina mhuineál.

     He has seven swellings on his neck.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 11:

     kiŕ də lāv ə n̄-isḱə leš n̥ t-at ə wȳlū.

     conventional orthography: Cuir do lámh in uisce leis an t-at a maolú.

     Put your hand in water to reduce the swelling.

2. verbal noun of at

From Old Irish attaid (“swells, dilates, increases”, verb), from att (“swelling, protuberance, tumour”).

at (present analytic atann, future analytic atfaidh, verbal noun at, past participle ata)

1. (intransitive) swell
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 11:

     tā ə h-ēdn̥ atī.

     conventional orthography: Tá a héadan ataithe.

     Her face is swollen.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 11:

     tā mə lāv atī.

     conventional orthography: Tá mo lámh ataithe.

     My hand is swollen.

   Synonym: borr

2. (intransitive) bloat
3. (intransitive, of sea) heave

• Alternative past participle: ataithe

• "at" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “att” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “attaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “at” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 42.
• “ataim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Entries containing “at” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Latin actus.

at m (plural ac)

1. act
2. action
3. work

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /at/

at

1. but, yet
2. whereas

• ast
• sed
• tamen (postpositive)

• atquī

• at in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• at in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• at in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• at in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

• attõ, āt, ātõ

at

1. 3rd person plural present indicative form of vȱlda

From Old Norse at. Cognate with Danish at and Swedish att.

• IPA^(key): /at/, [ɑt]

at

1. that

“at” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse at. Cognate with Danish at and Swedish att.

• IPA^(key): /ɑtː/
• Homophone: att

at

1. that

“at” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• it (second-person singular)
• ata (third-person plural relative)

• (second-person singular): IPA^(key): /at/
• (third-person plural relative): IPA^(key): /ad/

at

1. inflection of is:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative relative

From Proto-Germanic *atǭ. Related to Old English etja.

at n (genitive ats, plural ǫt)

1. conflict, fight, battle

• Icelandic: at

From Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”). Cognate with Old English þæt, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 (þata).

at

1. that
2. since, because, as

From Proto-Germanic *at (“at, to”). Cognate with Old English æt, Old Frisian et, Old Saxon at, Old High German az, Gothic 𐌰𐍄 (at).

at

1. to (infinitive particle)

at

1. at, to

• at in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• at in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• at in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• at in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Proto-Nahuan *aatl, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa-ta.

• IPA^(key): /aːt/

āt (plural ajāt)

1. water

   Shikuni chiupi at

   Drink some water

at

1. at

From Old Irish att.

at m

1. swelling, tumour
2. protuberance, prominence

From Old Irish attaid (“swells, dilates, increases”, verb), from att (“swelling, protuberance, tumour”).

at (past dh'at, future ataidh, verbal noun at or atadh, past participle athte)

1. swell, fester, puff up, become tumid

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “att” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “attaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

at

1. (cardinal) four

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آت‎ (at).

at m (Cyrillic spelling ат)

1. steed
2. Arabian (horse)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

at

1. (cardinal) four

• IPA^(key): /at/

at

1. and

   Synonym: saka

• at saka
• t'saka

From English heart.

at

1. heart

• IPA^(key): /ät̪/

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From Ottoman Turkish آت‎ (at, “horse”), from Proto-Turkic *at, *ăt (“horse”). Cognate with Karakhanid اَتْ‎ (at, “horse”), Old Turkic 𐱃‎ (at, “horse”).

at (definite accusative atı, plural atlar)

1. (zoology) horse
2. (chess) knight

at

1. second-person singular imperative of atmak

• at in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

From Proto-Turkic *at, *ăt (“horse”).

• IPA^(key): /at/

at (definite accusative ady, plural atlar)

1. horse

From Proto-Turkic *āt (“name”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐱃‎ (āt, “name”), Chuvash ят (jat, “name”), Turkish ad.

• IPA^(key): /aːt/

at (definite accusative ady, plural atlar)

1. name

at

1. (demonstrative) this

Cognate with Yagnobi ашт.

at

1. eight

• IPA^(key): /at/

at

1. to, towards
2. for
3. at
4. by

This preposition causes the soft mutation.

• IPA^(key): /ɔt/

at

1. if

   Synonym: as

• “at”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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at

1. year