how | |
1. adv. To what degree. | |
How often do you practice? | |
2. adv. In what manner. | |
How do you solve this puzzle? How else can we get this finished? | |
3. adj. In what state. | |
How are you? | |
How was your vacation? | |
4. adj. Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation. | |
How very interesting! How wonderful it was to receive your invitation. | |
5. n. The means by which something is accomplished. | |
I am not interested in the why, but in the how. | |
6. conj. In which way; in such way. | |
I remember how to solve this puzzle. | |
7. conj. That, the fact that, the way that. | |
8. n. (dialectal) An artificial barrow or tumulus. | |
9. n. (dialectal) A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.) | |
10. interj. A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech. | |