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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
of
preposition
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▪ a car of his own
▪ a cousin of mine
▪ a crown of gold and silver
▪ a flock of birds
▪ a friend of the family
▪ a gallon of milk
▪ a history of modern China
▪ a map of the world
▪ a member of the rock group
▪ a pack of cigarettes
▪ a photograph of my grandmother
▪ a small town to the west of Kansas City
▪ a teaspoonful of baking soda
▪ all the details of the agreement
▪ an area of outstanding beauty
▪ Father was a man of great integrity and honesty.
▪ Have you ever heard of the poet T.S. Eliot?
▪ I had a pain in the back of my leg
▪ most of the students
▪ News of Kirkland's arrest was soon all over town.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Of

Of \Of\ ([o^]v), prep. [AS. of of, from, off; akin to D. & OS. af, G. ab off, OHG. aba from, away, Icel., Dan., Sw., & Goth. af, L. ab, Gr. ?, Skr. apa. Cf. Off, A- (2), Ab-, After, Epi-.] In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; -- used in a variety of applications; as:

  1. Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood.

    That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
    --Luke i. 35.

    I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you.
    --1 Cor. xi. 23.

  2. Denoting possession or ownership, or the relation of subject to attribute; as, the apartment of the consul: the power of the king; a man of courage; the gate of heaven. ``Poor of spirit.''
    --Macaulay.

  3. Denoting the material of which anything is composed, or that which it contains; as, a throne of gold; a sword of steel; a wreath of mist; a cup of water.

  4. Denoting part of an aggregate or whole; belonging to a number or quantity mentioned; out of; from amongst; as, of this little he had some to spare; some of the mines were unproductive; most of the company.

    It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.
    --Lam. iii. 22.

    It is a duty to communicate of those blessings we have received.
    --Franklin.

  5. Denoting that by which a person or thing is actuated or impelled; also, the source of a purpose or action; due to; as, they went of their own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity.

    For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts.
    --Josh. xi. 20.

  6. Denoting reference to a thing; about; concerning; relating to; as, to boast of one's achievements; they talked of many things.

    Knew you of this fair work?
    --Shak.

  7. Denoting nearness or distance, either in space or time; from; as, within a league of the town; within an hour of the appointed time.

  8. Denoting identity or equivalence; -- used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of America; the city of Rome; the Island of Cuba.

  9. Denoting the agent, or person by whom, or thing by which, anything is, or is done; by.

    And told to her of [by] some.
    --Chaucer.

    He taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
    --Luke iv. 15.

    [Jesus] being forty days tempted of the devil.
    --Luke iv. 1, 2.

    Note: The use of the word in this sense, as applied to persons, is nearly obsolete.

  10. Denoting relation to place or time; belonging to, or connected with; as, men of Athens; the people of the Middle Ages; in the days of Herod.

  11. Denoting passage from one state to another; from. [Obs.] ``O miserable of happy.''
    --Milton.

  12. During; in the course of.

    Not be seen to wink of all the day.
    --Shak.

    My custom always of the afternoon.
    --Shak.

    Note: Of may be used in a subjective or an objective sense. ``The love of God'' may mean, our love for God, or God's love for us.

    Note: From is the primary sense of this preposition; a sense retained in off, the same word differently written for distinction. But this radical sense disappears in most of its application; as, a man of genius; a man of rare endowments; a fossil of a red color, or of an hexagonal figure; he lost all hope of relief; an affair of the cabinet; he is a man of decayed fortune; what is the price of corn? In these and similar phrases, of denotes property or possession, or a relation of some sort involving connection. These applications, however all proceeded from the same primary sense. That which proceeds from, or is produced by, a person or thing, either has had, or still has, a close connection with the same; and hence the word was applied to cases of mere connection, not involving at all the idea of separation.

    Of consequence, of importance, value, or influence.

    Of late, recently; in time not long past.

    Of old, formerly; in time long past.

    Of one's self, by one's self; without help or prompting; spontaneously.

    Why, knows not Montague, that of itself England is safe, if true within itself?
    --Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
of

Old English of, unstressed form of æf (prep., adv.) "away, away from," from Proto-Germanic *af (cognates: Old Norse af, Old Frisian af, of "of," Dutch af "off, down," German ab "off, from, down"), from PIE *apo- "off, away" (see apo-). Primary sense in Old English still was "away," but shifted in Middle English with use of the word to translate Latin de, ex, and especially Old French de, which had come to be the substitute for the genitive case. "Of shares with another word of the same length, as, the evil glory of being accessory to more crimes against grammar than any other." [Fowler]\n

\nAlso from 1837 a non-standard or dialectal representation of have as pronounced in unstressed positions (could of, must of, etc.)

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of

prep. 1 (non-gloss definition: Expressing direction.) 2 # (context now obsolete or dialectal English) from (of distance, direction), "off". (from the 9th c.) vb. (label en usually in modal perfect constructions) Representing (term: have) or (term: 've), chiefly in depictions of colloquial speech.

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OF

OF or Of may refer to:

  • Air Finland Ltd., a defunct Finnish airline by IATA airline code
  • Oberführer, a paramilitary rank of the German Nazi Party
  • , or Civic Forum, a Czech political movement established during the Velvet Revolution in 1989
  • Of, Turkey, a town and district in Trabzon Province, Turkey
  • Offenbach (district) änd Offenbach am Main, on German vehicle registration plates
  • OFWGKTA aka Odd Future (or just OF), full name Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, a Los Angeles-based hip-hop collective
  • Old Fashioned, a drink
  • Old Fettesian, sometimes used as post-nominal letters to identify alumni of the British public school Fettes College, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Old Firm, Glasgow-based association football clubs Celtic F.C. and Rangers F.C.
  • Old French
  • OpenFeint, a social gaming network for iOS (Apple) and Android
  • OpenFirmware, a computer software which loads an operating system
  • Operation Flashpoint, a video game series
  • , the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil resistance and political organization active during World War II
  • Oxygen fluoride, a compound containing only the chemical elements oxygen and fluorine
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Usage examples of "of".

Before this fire, the only crypt whose existence was known of, was a small chamber under the platform of the high altar, no wider than the central aisle of the choir, and only equal to a bay and a half of that aisle in length.

Cassidy was reminded of all the backstage fights he had been part of, back in the days when he still had a band: then the times when he was too fucked up on drugs to go out and play, when Jaime and Amad and the session men would haul him away from the mike and into the wings, demanding to know whether he had broken his vow to stay straight for this one gig.

And Adam suddenly realized that an emotionless, indifferent Amaranth was not the most frightening thing he could think of.

And a powerful Adept as well that much was evident from the signs all over him that pointed to constant manipulations of mage-energy on a scale Ancar had only dreamed of.

I believe this anomaly may be the cause of the destruction that Q spoke of.

But Havilland had been an engineer himself, and he knew exactly what their huge machines were capable of, what safeguards were taken, and that Alan Argyll, of all people, would not want injuries or time lost.

Havinge with them this Gowldri Bleusco, strangely reskewed from his preassoun-house beyond the toombe, and a great Armey of the moste strangg and fell folke that ever I saw or herd speke of.

Unlike any arquebus Pedi had ever heard of, however, these had no problem with water or weatheras they demonstrated with the very first volley.

It is more than probable that in practice the returns from the dressing-floors check the assayer, instead of, as should properly be the case, the assayer checking the returns.

I varied our pleasures in a thousand different ways, and I astonished her by making her feel that she was susceptible of greater enjoyment than she had any idea of.

Er stand am Ofen und blickte mit einem raschen und schmerzlich angestrengten Blinzeln hinueber zu dem Werk, von dem er geflohen war, dieser Last, diesem Druck, dieser Gewissensqual, diesem Meer, das auszutrinken, dieser furchtbaren Aufgabe, die sein Stolz und sein Elend, sein Himmel und seine Verdammnis war.

Though it was something all the Bridgers did from time to time, it was precisely the kind of thing Byle Bander would make an issue of, or harass her about until she would be heartily sorry for having done it.

Corentin, who was with Hulot, looked towards the summit in the direction pointed out by Barbette, and, as the fog was beginning to lift, he could see with some distinctness the column of white smoke the woman told of.

Coming in second, in front of a number of experienced Scandinavian military biathlon teams, was unheard of.

Up until now he had had the help of, first, Bluey, then Meg, then Hedger, Gomez, and Bergman, but now he was on his own.