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altogethers

altogethers noun: the way things are; circumstances. Also the plural of altogether.

Noun

altogethers

  1. (obsolete) The way things are; circumstances.
    • Well, well, my lords (quoth the king), take him, and well use him, as hee is worthy to bee, and make no more adoe.” And with that, every man caught him by the hand, and made faire weather of altogethers, which might easilie be done with that man.1623, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, King Henry VIII
    • And they were not past one year in their possessions, but that the reversion of every of them was sold for more years ; some for an hundred pounds, and some for more, and some for less, making sweepstakes of altogethers.1853, John Strype, Memorials of the Rev. Thomas Cranmer, page 195

Also used as

altogethers is also the plural of altogether.

altogethers is also the alternative form of altogether.

altogethers is also the alternative form of all together.

Forms of altogethers

comparativemore altogethers
superlativemost altogethers

Questions about altogethers

What does altogethers mean?
Altogethers means the way things are; circumstances.
What part of speech is altogethers?
Altogethers is a noun.

Words near altogethers in the dictionary

  1. altocumuli
  2. altocumulus
  3. Altofts
  4. altogether
  5. altogetherness
  6. altogethers
  7. altohyrtin
  8. altohyrtins
  9. altoist
  10. altoists
  11. Altom

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