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wiv

/wɪv/

wiv is the pronunciation spelling of with.

Meaning of with

Preposition

with

  1. Against.
    • He picked a fight with the class bully.
  2. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
    • He went with his friends.
  3. In addition to; as an accessory to.
    • She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
  4. Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
    • Jim was listening to Bach with his eyes closed.
  5. In support of.
    • We are with you all the way.
  6. In regard to.
    • There are a number of problems with your plan.

See all 16 meanings of with

Proper noun capitalized: WIV

WIV

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Wuhan Institute of Virology: a research institute on virology in Wuhan administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded in 1956.
    • “This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety...2023 July 19, Jeremy Diamond and Simone McCarthy, “Biden administration suspends funding for Wuhan lab”, in CNN

Forms of wiv

alternative formwid
alternative formwif

Origin of wiv

Alteration of with due to th-fronting.

Words that rhyme with wiv

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Questions about wiv

What is wiv the pronunciation spelling of?
Wiv is the pronunciation spelling of with.
What part of speech is wiv?
Wiv is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wiv?
Wiv is pronounced /wɪv/.

Words near wiv in the dictionary

  1. Witzels
  2. Witzelsucht
  3. Witzke
  4. Witzkes
  5. WIU
  6. wiv
  7. wive
  8. wived
  9. wivehood
  10. wiveless
  11. Wiveliscombe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wiv (page history and authors); WIV (page history and authors); with (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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