or so

phrase

Roughly, approximately.

“It was about half full or so.”

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Meanings

phrase
  1. Roughly, approximately.

    It was about half full or so.

    4 more examples

    How many people came to the party? – Thirty or so.

    In the first twenty or so years.

    A VVeek or ſo vvill probably reconcile us.

    1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 21

    When everyone had finished off with a drink from the well and an apple or so, the Dwarf produced a pipe about the size of his own arm, filled it, lit it, blew a great cloud of fragrant smoke and said, "Now."

    1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

Synonyms & antonyms

adverb(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

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approximatelyaboutclose tojust aboutsomeroughlymore or lessaround
Also see
aboutapproximatelyaroundclose tojust aboutmore or lessroughlysome

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 大約 /大约, 左右
  • 大約 /大约 (dàyuē)roughly, appoximately
  • 左右 (zuǒyòu)roughly, appoximately
Dutch of zo
  • of zoroughly, appoximately
Finnish suunnilleen, noin
  • suunnilleenroughly, appoximately
  • noinroughly, appoximately
German oder so
  • oder soroughly, appoximately
Irish nó faoin tuairim sin
  • nó faoin tuairim sinroughly, appoximately
Norwegian eller noe
  • eller noeroughly, appoximately
Norwegian Bokmål omtrent
  • omtrentroughly, appoximately
Polish mniej więcej, z hakiem
  • mniej więcejroughly, appoximately
  • z hakiemroughly, appoximately
  • z okłademroughly, appoximately
Portuguese cerca de, ao redor de
  • cerca deroughly, appoximately
  • ao redor deroughly, appoximately
  • à volta deroughly, appoximately
  • mais ou menosroughly, appoximately
  • aproximadamenteroughly, appoximately
Russian или около того
  • или около того (ili okolo tovo)roughly, appoximately
Scottish Gaelic no mar sin
  • no mar sinroughly, appoximately
Spanish más o menos
  • más o menosroughly, appoximately
Cite this entry
APA

or so. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/or%20so

MLA

“or so.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/or%20so. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “or so,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/or%20so.

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