Usually means: In agreement or alignment with.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word according:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. according: Merriam-Webster
  2. according: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. according: Collins English Dictionary
  4. according: Vocabulary.com
  5. According, According, according: Wordnik
  6. according: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. according: Wiktionary
  8. according: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. according: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. according: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. According, according: Dictionary.com
  12. according: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. According: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. according: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. according: Rhymezone
  16. According: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. according: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. according: FreeDictionary.org
  19. according: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. according: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. according: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. according: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. according: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (according)

▸ adjective:  Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Accordingly; correspondingly.

Similar:
accordant, reported, accordance, acording, concordant, concordable, consentaneous, harmonious, agreeable, congruent, more...

Opposite:
contrary, against, opposing, contradicting, differing

Types:
according to, in accordance with, in keeping with, in line with, in compliance with, more...

Phrases:
according to, according as, gospel according to john, gospel according to luke, gospel according to mark, more...

Adjectives:
same, historical, second, total, cognitive, inorganic, third, year, political, fifth, sixth



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Similar:
accordant, reported, accordance, acording, concordant, concordable, consentaneous, harmonious, agreeable, congruent, more...

Opposite:
contrary, against, opposing, contradicting, differing

Types:
according to, in accordance with, in keeping with, in line with, in compliance with, more...

Phrases:
according to, according as, gospel according to john, gospel according to luke, gospel according to mark, gospel according to matthew, according to hoyle, according to schedule, cut coat according to cloth, more...

Adjectives:
same, historical, second, total, cognitive, inorganic, third, year, political, fifth, sixth



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