accost
accost is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 35 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.
- 2.To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
- 3.To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.
- 4.Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- address
- allocution
- alloquy
- apostrophe
- apostrophize
- appeal
- aside
- audience
- ball
- button
- call
- dialogism
- dialogue
- ear
- halloo
- hey
- hist
- interpellation
- interview
- invocation
- invoke
- lecture
- make
- plank
- platform
- private
- salutation
- salute
- soho
- speak
- speech
- take
- talk
- the
- word
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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