1. abreast - Adjective
2. abreast - Adverb
3. abreast - Preposition
5. abreast - Adjective Satellite
Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast."
Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of.
Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.
At the same time; simultaneously.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. Peter Drucker
In a community wherepublic services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. John Kenneth Galbraith
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. Kate Chopin
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. Robert Frost
New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth. James Russell Lowell
My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things. Faith Ford