approach

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
  2. noun the act of drawing spatially closer to something
  3. noun a way of entering or leaving

Etymology

From Middle English aprochen, borrowed from Old French aprochier (modern French approcher), from Late Latin appropiāre, a verb based on Latin prope (“near”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (a variant of *per- (“before, in front; first”)) + *-kʷe (“suffix forming distributives from interrogatives”)).

In classic literature

Synonyms

attack, plan of attack

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