Definitions for abreast

abreast a·breast

Spelling: [uh-brest]
IPA: /əˈbrɛst/

Abreast is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in abreast (aaberst).

Definitions for abreast

adverb, adjective

  1. side by side; beside each other in a line:
  2. equal to or alongside in progress, attainment, or awareness (usually followed by of or with):

Origin of abreast

First recorded in 1590-1600; a-1 + breast

Examples for abreast

We will keep you abreast of these developments and let you know once the RSS feed is live.

They were then just abreast of the park of Montivilliers, and there they witnessed a most horrible sight.

Social media has kept me abreast of many plot twists and turns as firestorms of outrage and smugness come and go.

By degrees they let the boat drop back till her bow was abreast of the ladder.

Drivers were jostling three abreast on the tight oval track, and then a couple of cars collided.

The window was "abreast" of them, but also it was a trifle high.

As I got abreast of the main-mast, I saw some one had let run the halyards.

Paramilitary troops in grey urban camouflage moved into the square, five abreast, forcing demonstrators into side-streets.

Curious housewives stepped out in their aprons to watch them march down the road, four abreast waving two large American flags.

"They would come in twenty abreast to the licks where we lay in wait for them," said the Tallega.

Word Value for abreast
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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