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accost

Pronunciation: /əˈkɔst/

The English word “accost” has 10 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
  2. To join side to side; to border.
  3. To sail along the coast or side of.
  4. To approach; to come up to.
  5. To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  6. To adjoin; to lie alongside.
  7. To assault.
  8. To solicit sexually.

noun

  1. Address; greeting.
  2. An attack.

Etymology

From Middle French accoster, acoster, from Old French acoster (“to stand beside”) (whence Medieval Latin accostare), from Old French a- + coste (“side, flank”).

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