Definition/Meaning of of

• English - Preposition: of (dialectal, obsolete) Expressing distance or motion.: From (a place); off . Take the chicken out of the freezer. 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 3, member 5, subsection 2: Against headache, vertigo, vapours which ascend forth of the stomach…
• English - Verb: of (pronunciation spelling) Eye dialect spelling of have and 've , chiefly in depictions of colloquial speech. 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 340: "You couldn't of known," Livio says. 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 87: ‘You must of left your door unlocked. Or even open.’
• English - See also: 's
• English - Anagrams: F/O, fo , fo'
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English of , from Old English of (“from, out of, off ”), an unstressed form of æf , from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“away; away from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away”). Doublet of off, which is the stressed descendant of the same Old English word. More at off. Etymology 2. A spelling of /əv/ influenced by Etymology 1.