EGAVE

such

About 801.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. determiner Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
    I’ve never seen such clouds in the sky before.
  2. determiner Any.
    the above address or at such other address as may be provided
  3. determiner Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.
    Unfortunately, it wasn't such a good holiday as we thought it would be.
  4. determiner Used with gradable noun phrases to form exclamations.
    Such hypocrisy!
  5. determiner A certain; representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
  6. pronoun A person, a thing, people, or things like the one or ones already mentioned.
    Such is life, such as it is.
  7. noun Something being indicated that is similar to something else.

Similar words

specified much so much such as such that analogous same similar comparable nature

Often followed by

as a an that cases is things was circumstances

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