Clues for the word "IN"
We've had 11 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 36 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Mini crossword on November 28, 2025.
Definition of in
- prep. - The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.
- prep. - With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air.
- prep. - With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light.
- prep. - With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army.
- prep. - With reference to physical surrounding, personal states, etc., abstractly denoted; as, I am in doubt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear.
- prep. - With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor.
- prep. - With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God.
- prep. - With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life.
- adv. - Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house).
- adv. - With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband.
- n. - One who is in office; -- the opposite of out.
- n. - A reentrant angle; a nook or corner.
- v. t. - To inclose; to take in; to harvest.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- Mirror Mini - November 28, 2025
- Mirror Mini - November 24, 2025
- Mirror Mini - November 18, 2025
- Mirror Mini - March 08, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 04, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 04, 2018
- Mirror Mini - December 22, 2017
- Mirror Mini - November 28, 2017
- Canadiana - November 27, 2017
- Mirror Mini - November 24, 2017
- Canadiana - November 20, 2017
- Mirror Mini - November 18, 2017
- Canadiana - November 13, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 06, 2017
- Mirror Mini - March 08, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 16, 2017
- Mirror Mini - February 04, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 22, 2016
- Canadiana - October 10, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 29, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 25, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 22, 2014
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 25, 2013
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 01, 2012
- Canadiana - October 15, 2012
- Canadiana - August 03, 2009
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 26, 2008
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 13, 2007
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 15, 2007
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 28, 2007
- And in 6 more crossword puzzles...