"or so" meaning in Anglais

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Adverb

  1. À peu près, approximativement, environ. Tags: familiar
    Sense id: fr-or_so-en-adv-IjjMTZ~c Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire, Termes familiers en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: approximately Related terms: or, so
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  "categories": [
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Locutions adverbiales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "notes": [
    "L'expression s'emploie après de la phrase nominale."
  ],
  "pos": "adv",
  "pos_title": "Locution adverbiale",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "or"
    },
    {
      "word": "so"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Termes familiers en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The trip will take about three hours or so."
        },
        {
          "text": "Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. (Bleak House - Charles Dickens)",
          "translation": "Un affreux temps de novembre ; il y avait autant de boue dans les rues que si les eaux du déluge venaient seulement d’abandonner la surface de la terre, et l’on ne serait pas surpris de rencontrer un mégalosaure, long d’environ douze mètres, gravissant, dans la vase, tel un lézard éléphantesque, la colline de Holborn."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "À peu près, approximativement, environ."
      ],
      "id": "fr-or_so-en-adv-IjjMTZ~c",
      "tags": [
        "familiar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "approximately"
    }
  ],
  "word": "or so"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Locutions adverbiales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "notes": [
    "L'expression s'emploie après de la phrase nominale."
  ],
  "pos": "adv",
  "pos_title": "Locution adverbiale",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "or"
    },
    {
      "word": "so"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Termes familiers en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The trip will take about three hours or so."
        },
        {
          "text": "Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. (Bleak House - Charles Dickens)",
          "translation": "Un affreux temps de novembre ; il y avait autant de boue dans les rues que si les eaux du déluge venaient seulement d’abandonner la surface de la terre, et l’on ne serait pas surpris de rencontrer un mégalosaure, long d’environ douze mètres, gravissant, dans la vase, tel un lézard éléphantesque, la colline de Holborn."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "À peu près, approximativement, environ."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "familiar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "approximately"
    }
  ],
  "word": "or so"
}

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