attach

Pronunciation: /əˈtæt͡ʃ/

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb cause to be attached
  2. verb be attached; be in contact with
  3. verb become attached

Etymology

From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakkā, *stakō (“stick”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“pole, bar, stick, stake”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack. Displaced native Old English þīedan.

In classic literature

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
connect
Narrower (hyponyms)
glue, fasten, clip, append, hook up, pin down
Opposite (antonyms)
detach

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