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to boot

to boot adverb: in addition, besides, also.

Adverb

to boot (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) In addition, besides, also.
    • His boyfriend is funny, and a pretty good cook to boot.
    • Among the people (of Rome) beſide x. modij of corne, & as many pints of oyle, he diſtributed & dealt 300 Seſterces alſo by the poll, vvhich hee had in times paſt promiſed, vvith an overdeale of 100. a peece to boote, for time.1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […]...

to boot meaning in Malayalam

to boot in Malayalam

also, as well, too
കൂടാതെ, പുറമേ, യ്ക്കു പുറമേ, അതും, ഇതും, ഇങ്ങിനെയും

Synonyms of to boot

Origin of to boot

From Middle English to bote (“something added to, addition”), from Old English tō bōte (“to boot, besides, moreover”). See boot (“profit, gain, remedy”).

Questions about to boot

What does to boot mean?
To boot means in addition, besides, also.
What is to boot in Malayalam?
To boot in Malayalam is കൂടാതെ, പുറമേ, യ്ക്കു പുറമേ. See To boot meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is to boot?
To boot is an adverb.

Words near to boot in the dictionary

  1. to be truthful
  2. to beat the band
  3. to begin with
  4. to bits
  5. to blame
  6. to boot
  7. to burn
  8. to come
  9. to date
  10. to day
  11. to death

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to boot (page history and authors); to boot (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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