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TOGETHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does together mean?
• TOGETHER (adjective)
The adjective TOGETHER has 1 sense:
1. mentally and emotionally stable
Familiarity information: TOGETHER used as an adjective is very rare.
• TOGETHER (adverb)
The adverb TOGETHER has 6 senses:
1. in contact with each other or in proximity
2. assembled in one place
3. in each other's company
4. at the same time
5. with cooperation and interchange
6. with a common plan
Familiarity information: TOGETHER used as an adverb is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mentally and emotionally stable
Context example:
she's really together
Similar:
unneurotic (not neurotic)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
togetherness (affectionate closeness)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In contact with each other or in proximity
Context example:
the leaves stuck together
Sense 2
Meaning:
Assembled in one place
Context example:
we were gathered together
Sense 3
Meaning:
In each other's company
Context example:
the family that prays together stays together
Sense 4
Meaning:
At the same time
Context example:
we graduated together
Sense 5
Meaning:
With cooperation and interchange
Synonyms:
together; unitedly
Context example:
we worked together on the project
Sense 6
Meaning:
With a common plan
Synonyms:
in concert; together
Context example:
act in concert
Context examples
Presently, with an excuse, he left me, asking me to put all my papers together.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
They were all in the best of spirits, and laughed and chatted together.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
While we were together, you know, there was nothing to be feared.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
It is a product of genetic and environmental factors acting together.
(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Sarah came back with her; they both went to bed; they were whispering together for half-an-hour before they fell asleep.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
We did a Catharine-wheel together down the passage.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nor I. We are both children together.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It looks like you will be able to travel and take an exciting vacation together.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
These two processes together only produced a quarter of an inch (7 millimeters) of growth — less than a third of the total.
(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)
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