in
pronunciation
How to pronounce in in British English:
UK [ɪn]
How to pronounce in in American English:
US [ɪn]
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- Noun:
- a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
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- Adjective:
- currently fashionable
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- Adverb:
- to or toward the inside of
- inside an enclosed space
Word Origin
- in
- in: [OE] In is a widespread preposition amongst the Indo-European languages. Greek had en, Latin in (whence French and Italian en and Spanish in), and amongst modern languages German and Dutch have in, Swedish i, Welsh yn, and Russian v, all of which point back to an original Indo-European *en or *n. The adverb in was not originally the same word; it comes from a conflation of two Old English adverbs, inn and inne, both ultimately related to the preposition in. (An inn is etymologically a place ‘in’ which people live or stay.)=> inn
- in
- Old English in (prep.) "in, into, upon, on, at, among; about, during;" inne (adv.) "within, inside," from Proto-Germanic *in (cognates: Old Frisian, Dutch, German, Gothic in, Old Norse i), from PIE *en "in" (cognates: Greek en, Latin in "in, into," Old Irish in, Welsh yn-, Old Church Slavonic on-). As an adjective from 1590s. The forms merged in Middle English. Modern sense distinction between in and on is from later Middle English. Sense of "holding power" (the in party) first recorded c. 1600; that of "exclusive" (the in-crowd, an in-joke) is from 1907 (in-group); that of "stylish, fashionable" (the in thing) is from 1960. The noun sense of "influence, access" (have an in with) first recorded 1929 in American English. In-and-out "copulation" is attested from 1610s.
Synonym
in throughout among that by within while during amid surrounded
Antonym
Example
- 1. Tell us in the comments .
- 2. Hitler has died in berlin .
- 3. Opened on friday in manhattan .
- 4. Now germany is joining in .
- 5. Congress has also joined in .