"how about" meaning in English

See how about in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} how about (not comparable)
  1. Synonym of what about Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: what about [synonym, synonym-of] Derived forms: how about no
    Sense id: en-how_about-en-adv-A1dG2G0S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for how about meaning in English (0.6kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "how about (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "how about no"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of what about"
      ],
      "id": "en-how_about-en-adv-A1dG2G0S",
      "links": [
        [
          "what about",
          "what about#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "what about"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "how about"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "how about no"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "how about (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English uncomparable adverbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of what about"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "what about",
          "what about#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "what about"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "how about"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.