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What does the word approach mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To come or cause to come near or nearer ( to); make advances ( to).

Part of speech: noun plural

Advances, as to friendship, etc.

Part of speech: noun plural

Works, as trenches, etc., by which besiegers approach a fortified place.

Part of speech: noun

The act of approaching; a coming nearer; access.

Part of speech: noun

Opportunity, means, or way of approaching,.

Part of speech: noun

Approachness.

Part of speech: adjective

Approachable.

Usage examples for approach

It did not move at his approach. – The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
" This is the nearest approach to a bomb of any description that I've been able to discover," he announced. – The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil