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WHAT DOES HOW ABOUT? MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of how about? in the English dictionary

The definition of how about? in the dictionary is used to suggest something.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOW ABOUT?

how
how are you keeping?
how are you?
how come?
how d´ye do
how do
how do you do
how do you do?
how far?
how now?
how the land lies
how the wind blows
how-d´ye-do
how-do-you-do
how-to
how´s that?
how´s tricks?
how´s-your-father
Howard
howbeit

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOW ABOUT?

can you beat it?
how´s that?

Synonyms and antonyms of how about? in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «how about?» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOW ABOUT?

Find out the translation of how about? to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of how about? from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «how about?» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

怎么样?
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

¿qué tal ?
570 millions of speakers

English

how about?
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

के बारे में कैसे ?
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ماذا عن ؟
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

как насчет ?
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Que tal ?
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কেমন?
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

que diriez-vous ?
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

macam mana dengan?
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wie wäre es ?
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

方法については?
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

방법은 ?
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Carane babagan?
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm thế nào về ?
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எப்படி?
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हे कसे राहील?
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ne dersin?
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

che ne dite ?
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

jak o ?
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

як щодо ?
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cum despre ?
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σχετικά με το πώς ;
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hoe oor ?
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vad sägs om ?
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hva med ?
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of how about?

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOW ABOUT?»

The term «how about?» is very widely used and occupies the 14.015 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOW ABOUT?» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «how about?» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «how about?» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about how about?

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOW ABOUT?»

Discover the use of how about? in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to how about? and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How about Demons?: Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World
Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject." —Journal of Folklore Research Rich in detail derived from the author's fieldwork and the anthropological literature, this ...
Felicitas D. Goodman, 1988
2
How About A Hug?
Questions and answers show the reader that different kinds of hugs can be the answer for many situations.
Nancy L. Carlson, 2004
3
How about It, Writer?
ENDNOTES. Preface 1. The essays appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Literary Digest, The Forum, The Contemporary Review, The Yale Review, The North American Review, The Unpopular Review, Harper's Monthly Magazine, Saturday ...
Charles Romesburg, 2005
4
I Was Born This Way, How about You?
Doug Green. 5 College 1958 to 1962 In September of 1958, Mom and Dad drove me to Goddard College, about thirty miles from home. In no time, I knew I was in the right place. Friendly, happy students were black, East Indian, Cambodian, ...
Doug Green, 2010
5
Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any Should There ...
Media studies is more than 50 years old, and the authors in this text offer their own candidate texts for canonization. Each essay presents a critical reading of one of these classics and debates its candidacy.
Elihu Katz, 2003
6
Bloom's How to Write about Amy Tan
How about now? What does the novel have to say about the United States' behavior as an international citizen? How does it perceive its place in the world and its relationship with other countries? What does the novel have to say about the ...
Kim Becnel, 2009
7
Bloom's how to Write about Ernest Hemingway
Would you say that violence is a common thread for many of these men? How about emotion and sensitivity? Based on the comparisons you have made, what kinds of generalization can you make about Hemingway's portrayal of masculinity ?
Kim Becnel, Harold Bloom, 2009
8
Angels in Our Lives: Everything You've Always Wanted to Know ...
How about the miraculous event when God came to earth as a man? At Jesus' birth, the angels were there. How about when He was tempted in the wilderness? His angels were there. How about during His earthly ministry? The angels were ...
Marie Chapian, 2006
9
How to Make Maximum Money with Minimum Customers: 21 Proven ...
And this is much easier to do than you think, as you'll see in Chapter 10, "How To Become Number One In Your Industry."Why conventional business and marketing advice is useless, because it revolves around exchanging time for money.
Craig Garber, 2011
10
About to Die: How News Images Move the Public
How “about” an about-to-die image needs to be depends on a host of temporal, spatial, cognitive, cultural, and contextual loads that are constructed, implied, and suggested. Together, they render the image of impending death as dependent ...
Barbie Zelizer, 2010

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. How about? [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/how-about>. Apr 2024 ».
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