Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

within

Pronunciation: /wɪˈðɪn/

Translate within | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
French translation of within

A. prep

  • 1 (inside) within the city walls = dans l'enceinte de la ville within the party = au sein du parti it's a play within a play = c'est une pièce dans la pièce
  • 2 (in expressions of time) I'll do it within the hour = je le ferai en moins d'une heure 15 burglaries within a month = 15 cambriolages en (moins d')un mois they died within a week of each other = ils sont morts à une semaine d'intervalle
  • 3 (not more than) to be within several metres of sth = être à quelques mètres seulement de qch it's accurate to within a millimetre = c'est exact au millimètre près
  • 4to live within one's income = vivre selon ses moyens

B. adv

within in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of within in the British & World English dictionary Definition of within in the US English dictionary