1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
General
1. n. (military) The military officer title
2. adj. Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular.
3. adj. (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.
4. adj. Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
5. adj. Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category.
Example Sentences
But it registered an important truth about politics in general.
We, being gay are shunned by society in general.
Publishing, like the media in general, is dominated by white, middle-class people and that inevitably distorts black writing and art.
The census figures are reminders that religion in general, and the church in particular, are not marginal anachronisms doomed to terminal decline in modern society.
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