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be around en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, intransitive, stative) To be alive, existent, or present.
   • This restaurant has been around since 1938.
   • The New York-style hot dog I love has been around for well over a hundred years. 2005 May 25, Ed Levine, “It's All in How the Dog Is Served”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Jan 2009:
   • I'll be around for another hour or so.
   • Well, sir, you remember this young Georgie sort of disappeared, after his grandfather's death, and nobody seemed to know much what had become of him—though I did hear, once or twice, that he was still around somewhere. 1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 34, in The Magnificent Ambersons:
   • The article said that dinos were around for about 250 million years.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To be near; to socialize with.
   • You're fun to be around.

Forms

Relateds

have been around

Translations (2)

es con... andar (to be near; to socialize with) · es andar con (to be near; to socialize with)