Timeline for Is it possible that the meanings of some words don't appear on the dictionary?
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| Jan 25 at 21:52 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jan 25 at 16:26 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @AndyBonner - yeah, I agree. I think it's also fairly common usage to use at with workplaces too. | |
| Jan 25 at 14:46 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | @BillyKerr I'd say that usage also extends to workplaces ("My first year at Google"), though that one can also take "with." | |
| Jan 25 at 12:50 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | While it's quite true that most people currently prefer to refer to a year at Harvard, that's just established idiomatic preference - not a matter of "correct syntax". There are plenty of written contexts using in (a container metaphor rather than the (literal?) location reference). | |
| Jan 25 at 10:34 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | At is used specifically with universities, colleges and schools. It's a common collocation. This is just common usage, and not something you will find in a dictionary to be honest. You just have to learn it, there's no specific reason for it. You could also say: My first year spent at Yale was excellent. There can be exceptions to this when talking of something within/inside a university. | |
| Jan 25 at 4:37 | comment | added | user183853 | @FumbleFingers Thank you for the tip. | |
| Jan 25 at 4:10 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Common prepositions like at, in, on,... are virtually "content-free" in many contexts - they're just the syntactic glue holding the meaningful words together. Don't waste time trying to understand "the meaning" of at as a "word" - focus on understanding the overall sense of the containing utterance. | |
| Jan 25 at 3:05 | history | edited | user183853 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 25 at 3:04 | comment | added | user183853 | @BillyKerr I know. I mean there's no corresponding meaning in some dictionaries. | |
| Jan 25 at 3:04 | comment | added | user183853 | @AndyBonner I use the same dictionary, the Merriam, but I found it on Longman. | |
| Jan 25 at 1:47 | answer | added | Andy Bonner | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 25 at 1:39 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | There is nothing wrong with the example quote - at Yale is correct. | |
| Jan 25 at 1:30 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | What dictionary did you check? Please edit to tell more about what you found. Simple, short words like "at" often have a lot of uses; this one gives at least six. | |
| Jan 24 at 23:53 | history | edited | the-baby-is-you | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24 at 23:04 | history | asked | user183853 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |