access

Speech parts

1. access - Noun

2. access - Verb

Meaning

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land.

Admission to sexual intercourse.

Increase by something added; addition; as, an access of territory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.]

An onset, attack, or fit of disease.

A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

approach admission admittance get at get reach connection entry obtain passage availability accession consult accessibility entree
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Antonyms

matter ladder bar removal retirement departure
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Hypernyms

make right way find approach code

Hyponyms

address entry door entrance back door backdoor

Phrases with the word

direct access storage device give access access way allow access to access secret gain access to

Examples

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not. Josh McDowell

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream. Rush Limbaugh

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. Andrea Dworkin

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water. David Suzuki

It is wisdom to prevent someone from whom one cannot accept repayment to have access to one's valuable possessions. Nigerian Proverb

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure. Portuguese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

acceptorless acceptour acceptress access between decks access channel access code