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or so

or so phrase: roughly, approximately.

Phrase

or so

  1. Roughly, approximately.
    • How many people came to the party? – Thirty or so.
    • It was about half full or so.

or so meaning in Hindi

or so in Hindi

लगभग

Examples of or so in a sentence

  • In the first twenty or so years.
  • A VVeek or ſo vvill probably reconcile us.1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 21:

Questions about or so

What does or so mean?
Or so means roughly, approximately.
What is or so in Hindi?
Or so in Hindi is लगभग. See Or so meaning in Hindi.
How do you use or so in a sentence?
In the first twenty or so years.
What part of speech is or so?
Or so is a phrase.

Words near or so in the dictionary

  1. OR gates
  2. or hor
  3. or it didn't happen
  4. or not
  5. or should I say
  6. or so
  7. or so on
  8. or something
  9. or what
  10. or words to that effect
  11. or-molu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: or so (page history and authors); or so (Hindi Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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