of | WordDisk

Add

of `preposition` [ ɒv ]

• expressing the relationship between a part and a whole.

• expressing the relationship between a scale or measure and a value.

• "an increase of 5%"

• indicating an association between two entities, typically one of belonging, in which the first is the head of the phrase and the second is something associated with it.

• "the son of a friend"

• expressing the relationship between a direction and a point of reference.

• "north of Watford"

• expressing the relationship between a general category or type and the thing being specified which belongs to such a category.

• "the city of Prague"

• following a noun derived from or related to a verb.

• where the head of the phrase is a predicative adjective.

• "it was kind of you to ask"

• indicating the relationship between a verb and an indirect object.

• indicating the material or substance constituting something.

• "the house was built of bricks"

• expressing time in relation to the following hour.

• "it would be just a quarter of three in New York"

Origin: Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch af and German ab, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin ab and Greek apo .

of- `prefix`

• variant spelling of ob- assimilated before f (as in offend ).

be of

• possess intrinsically; give rise to.

• "this work is of great interest and value"

be of

• possess intrinsically; give rise to.
"this work is of great interest and value"

of all

• denoting the least likely or expected example.
"Jordan, of all people, committed a flagrant foul"

of all the nerve

• an expression of indignation.

of an evening

• on most evenings.
"he has a healthy diet consisting of cereal in the morning and meat and two veg of an evening"

of a morning

• on most mornings.
"I prefer to look out the window of a morning and decide then whether a coat is needed"

of preposition [ ɒv ]

of- prefix

be of

be of

of all

of all the nerve

of an evening

of a morning

of `preposition` [ ɒv ]

of- `prefix`