apropos
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[edit] English
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French à propos (“‘by the way’”)
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apropos (comparative more apropos, superlative most apropos)
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- Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
- 1877, Jules Verne, translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson, Journey into the Interior of the Earth, Chapter VI,
- Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos.
- 1877, Jules Verne, translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson, Journey into the Interior of the Earth, Chapter VI,
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of an appropriate or pertinent nature
[edit] Preposition
apropos
- Regarding or concerning.
- Apropos the return home of the body of old King Nicholas of Montenegro ('Communists allow burial of Montenegro's last king', 2 October): King Alexander of Yugoslavia was his grandson, not his son-in-law.
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regarding or concerning
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[edit] Adverb
apropos
- “By the way”.
- timely, at a good time.
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by the way
timely, at a good time
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[edit] Quotations
Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. “No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin,” he observed. “Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet
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- Anagrams of aoopprs
- Sapporo
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apropos