as

1. 1.

   to the same degree (often followed by `as')

   “they were equally beautiful”

   “birds were singing and the child sang as sweetly”

   “sang as sweetly as a nightingale”

   “he is every bit as mean as she is”

   Synonymsequallyevery bit

Other forms of as

plural

ases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about as

What does as mean?

as means "a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in as?

as has 1 syllable: as. In IPA it is /ˈæz/.

What is another word for as?

Close synonyms include arsenic, atomic number 33, American Samoa, Eastern Samoa, equally. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is as a common word?

as is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with as?

1 word rhymes with as. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.