"hand in hand" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /ˌhændɪnˈhænd/ Audio: En-us-hand-in-hand.ogg [US]
Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} hand in hand (not comparable)
  1. Holding or clasping hands. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: hand-in-hand Related terms: arm in arm Translations (holding or clasping hands): de la mà (Catalan), 手拉手地 (shǒu lāshǒu de) (Chinese Mandarin), 攜手地 (Chinese Mandarin), 携手地 (xiéshǒu de, xīshǒu de) (Chinese Mandarin), hand in hand (Dutch), käsi kädessä (Finnish), käsikkäin (Finnish), main dans la main (French), Hand in Hand (German), χέρι-χέρι (chéri-chéri) (Greek), kéz a kézben (Hungarian), kézen fogva (Hungarian), a mani giunte (Italian), mano nella mano (Italian), 手をつないで (te o tsunaide) (alt: てをつないで) (Japanese), manibus nexis (Latin), ręka w rękę (Polish), de mãos dadas (Portuguese), рука́ о́б ру́ку (ruká ób rúku) (Russian), de la mano (Spanish), el ele (Turkish), пліч-о-пліч (plič-o-plič) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-hand_in_hand-en-adv--1B1i4sI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English reduplicated coordinated pairs, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 39 1 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 73 24 4 Disambiguation of English reduplicated coordinated pairs: 87 13 1 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 64 29 7 Disambiguation of 'holding or clasping hands': 99 1 0
  2. (figurative) Naturally, ordinarily or predictably together; commonly having a correlation or relationship. Tags: figuratively, not-comparable Translations (naturally together): käsi kädessä (Finnish), kuulua (english: go hand in hand) [verb] (Finnish), Hand in Hand (German), χέρι-χέρι (chéri-chéri) (Greek), mano nella mano (Italian), вместе (vmeste) (Russian), сообща (soobšča) (Russian), в тесном взаимодействии / связи (v tesnom vzaimodejstvii / svjazi) (Russian), рука́ о́б ру́ку (ruká ób rúku) (Russian), рука́ в ру́ку (ruká v rúku) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-hand_in_hand-en-adv-TQT~eG1v Disambiguation of 'naturally together': 0 100 0
  3. (obsolete) Just; fair; equitable. Tags: not-comparable, obsolete
    Sense id: en-hand_in_hand-en-adv-oXWqiDXY

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