English

Alternative forms

• abutt

Verb

abut ‎(third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)

1. (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent; to project; to terminate; to be contiguous; to meet, of an estate, country, etc. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]^[3]

   It was a time when Germany still abutted upon Russia.

   His land abuts on the road.

2. (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to; to support by an abutment. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]^[3]

Usage notes

Followed by any of the following words: upon, on or (obsolete) to.^[1][3]

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English abutten,^[4] from Old French aboter ‎(“to touch at one end, border on”)^[1]abouter ‎(“to join end to end”), abuter ‎(“to buttress, to put an end to”), from a- ‎(“towards”) + bout ‎(“end”), boter, bouter ‎(“to strike”),^[5]buter ‎(“to strike, finish”).^[4] Equivalent to a- ‎(“towards, change to”) +‎ butt ‎(“push”)^[3]

Verb

abut ‎(third-person singular simple present abuts, present participle abutting, simple past and past participle abutted)

1. (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]^[3]

Usage notes

Followed by any of the following words: upon, on, or against.^[1][3]

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5), page 8
2. ↑ Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], ISBN 0-394-43600-8), page 7
3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 11
4. 1 2 William Morris (editor), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1971 [1969]; American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.; ISBN 0-395-09066-0), page 6
5. ↑ Christine A. Lindberg (editor), The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition (Spark Publishing, 2007 [2002], ISBN 978-1-4114-0500-4), page 5

Anagrams

• tabu
• tuba

Hiligaynon

Verb

abút (frequentative abút-abút)

1. arrive at a place

Verb

ábut (frequentative abút-ábut)

1. to catch up with or overtake

Kiput

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *rabut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rabut.

Verb

abut

1. to pluck

Yola

Preposition

abut

1. about