Collins Primary Illustrated Dictionary

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acceptable

ADJECTIVE satisfactory

access

NOUN If you have access to a place, you may enter it. If you have access to a thing, you may use it.

accessible

ADJECTIVE 1 easy to reach or to see • The beach was accessible by a narrow path.

2 Books that are accessible are easy to understand.

accident accidents

NOUN 1 something that happens suddenly or unexpectedly, causing people to be hurt or killed

PHRASE 2 Something that happens by accident has not been planned. • We met by accident in the supermarket.

accidental

ADJECTIVE Something that is accidental has not been planned.

accidentally ADVERB

accommodation

NOUN a place where you can live, work or sleep

accompany accompanies, accompanying, accompanied

VERB 1 If you accompany someone, you go with them.

2 If you accompany a singer, you play an instrument while they sing.

accomplice accomplices

NOUN a person who helps someone else to commit a crime

accomplish accomplishes, accomplishing, accomplished

VERB If you accomplish something, you succeed in doing it.

according to

PREPOSITION If something is true according to a particular person, that person says that it is true. • According to my grandad, that castle is haunted.

account accounts, accounting, accounted

NOUN 1 a written or spoken report of something

2 money that you keep at a bank

PHRASE 3 On account of means because of. • He couldn’t play football, on account of a sore throat.

VERB 4 To account for something is to explain it. • The bad weather accounts for the cancellation of the barbecue.

accountant accountants

NOUN someone whose job is to look after the financial affairs of people and companies

accumulate accumulates, accumulating, accumulated

VERB If things accumulate, or if you accumulate things, they collect over a period of time. • While they were away, a large pile of letters accumulated on the doormat.

accumulation NOUN

accurate

ADJECTIVE absolutely correct

accuracy NOUN

accuse accuses, accusing, accused

VERB If you accuse someone of doing something wrong, you say they have done it.

accusation NOUN

ace aces

NOUN 1 In a pack of cards, the ace is a card with a single symbol on it.

2 In tennis, an ace is a serve that the other player is unable to return.

ADJECTIVE 3 INFORMAL good or skilful • an ace squash player

ache aches, aching, ached

NOUN 1 a continuous, dull pain

VERB 2 If a part of your body aches, you feel a continuous, dull pain there.

achieve achieves, achieving, achieved

VERB If you achieve something, you are successful at doing it or at making it happen.

The i comes before the e in achieve.