"be about" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "is about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "being about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "was about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "been about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "be<is,being,was,been> about"
      },
      "expansion": "be about (third-person singular simple present is about, present participle being about, simple past was about, past participle been about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-be_about-en-verb-47DEQpj8",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "know what one is about"
        },
        {
          "word": "what someone is about"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss",
        "translation-hub"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "是關於"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shì guānyú",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "是关于"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "gaan over"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "with-elative"
          ],
          "word": "kertoa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "with-partitive"
          ],
          "word": "käsitellä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "s’agir de (e.g. \"il s'agit de ...\")"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "concerner"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "être au sujet de"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "sich handeln um (e.g. \"es handelt sich um ...\")",
          "sense": "Translations"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "e.g. \"es geht um ...\"",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "gehen um"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "von ... sein"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "über ... sein"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "aforá",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "αφορά"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "chodzić o"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "być o"
        },
        {
          "alt": "e.g. О чём эта книга? - copula is omitted in the present",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bytʹ o",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "быть о"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "this is about ... (more abstract topics)",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "rečʹ idjót o ...",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "речь идёт о ..."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "be about"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "is about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "being about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "was about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "been about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "be<is,being,was,been> about"
      },
      "expansion": "be about (third-person singular simple present is about, present participle being about, simple past was about, past participle been about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "know what one is about"
    },
    {
      "word": "what someone is about"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss",
        "translation-hub"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "是關於"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shì guānyú",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "是关于"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "gaan over"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "with-elative"
      ],
      "word": "kertoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "with-partitive"
      ],
      "word": "käsitellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "s’agir de (e.g. \"il s'agit de ...\")"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "concerner"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "être au sujet de"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "sich handeln um (e.g. \"es handelt sich um ...\")",
      "sense": "Translations"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "e.g. \"es geht um ...\"",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "gehen um"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "von ... sein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "über ... sein"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aforá",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "αφορά"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "chodzić o"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "być o"
    },
    {
      "alt": "e.g. О чём эта книга? - copula is omitted in the present",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bytʹ o",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "быть о"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "this is about ... (more abstract topics)",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rečʹ idjót o ...",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "речь идёт о ..."
    }
  ],
  "word": "be about"
}