Definizione monolingua

accost

accost (third-person singular simple present accosts, present participle accosting, simple past and past participle accosted)

1. (transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
   • So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea. - Fuller
3. (transitive, obsolete, Shakespearian) To approach; to come up to
4. (transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
   • Him, Satan thus accosts - Milton
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII

     She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—""She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink.""

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside
   • The shores which to the sea accost - Spenser

accost (plural accosts)

1. (rare) Address; greeting.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Morley to this entry?)

Definizione dizionario accost

	accostare
	To approach and speak to, especially in an unfriendly way.

abbordare

avvicinare

cominciare

indirizzarsi a

rivolgere la parola

salutazione

saluto

Altri significati:

address (crowd)

to approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request

(rare) Address; greeting.

to speak to first, to address, to greet

(transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

(transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.

(transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

(intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside

(transitive, obsolete, Shakespearian) To approach; to make up to