/ˈpɜːpəs/
Translation
The reason why you do something, or the job that a thing is made for.
Word origin
From Old French porpos, from Latin proponere, meaning to put something forward.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- porpos
- English cognates
- propose, proposal
Grammar
Examples
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Here it asks why the meeting is happening.
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Here it is what the tool is for.
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"On purpose" means he meant to do it.
Used in
Grammar articles
(8)Adjective order in English: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose
Advanced articles in English: the zero article, the with names and places, and go to school vs go to the school
Countable and uncountable nouns in English: advice, information, news and the ones you simply have to learn
Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where
Hedging and vague language in English: sort of, a bit, -ish, stuff and or so
Inversion and word order in English: the subject-verb-object spine and when it flips
Prepositions in English: place, time and movement explained
Time clauses in English: when, while, as soon as, until, before and after
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