WordUnscrambler Home
how
Definitions
[haʊ], (Adverb)
Definitions:
- in what way or manner; by what means
(e.g: how does it work?)
- used to ask about the condition or quality of something
(e.g: how was your holiday?)
- used to ask about the extent or degree of something
(e.g: how old are you?)
- the way in which; that
(e.g: she told us how she had lived out of a suitcase for a week)
Phrases:
- and how!
- here's how!
- how about
- how are you going?
- how do you do?
- how do?
- how many
- how much
- how now?
- how so?
- how's that?
- the how and why
Origin
:
Old English hū, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoe, also to who and what
[haʊ], (Interjection)
Definitions:
- a greeting attributed to Indigenous people of North America (used in humorous imitation and now likely to be regarded as offensive)
Phrases:
Origin
:
early 19th century: perhaps from Sioux háo or Omaha hou
Click here to see the free dictionary definition for how
definition by Oxford Dictionaries