Definition of Or so

1. Adverb. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct. "20 or so people were at the party"


Definition of Or so

1. Phrase. Roughly, approximately. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Or So

opuscle
opuscles
opuscula
opuscular
opuscule
opuscules
opusculum
opuses
opv
opye
or
or-
or else
or so (current term)
or something
or what
or words to that effect
ora
ora serrata
orach
orache
oraches
orachs
oracies
oracle
oracle machine
oracle machines

Literary usage of Or so

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"inate the questions discussed at bar, which are either irrelevant or so effectually foreclosed by prior decisions of this court as to be no longer open to ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The language of the Act is : "The assignee may recover the property, or the value of it, from the person во receiving it, or so to be benefited. ..."

3. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1868)
"That the following sums, or so much Department. for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, out of any money in the treasury not ..."

4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"The lightning that flashes so bright and so free, Is scarcely so blithe or so bonny as me. shine, But has not a heart half so lightsome as ring — bridal ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... were the will not established; then such share, or so much thereof as will not exceed the legacy or bequest made in the will, shall be saved to him. ..."

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