such as

preposition

For example.

“I was never in a country such as that.”

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Meanings

preposition
  1. For example.

    Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area.

    1 more example

    The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.

    2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32

    Synonyms: for example, for instance, e.g., like

  2. Like, of the kind mentioned.

    I was never in a country such as that.

    3 more examples

    A plan such as you propose will never succeed.

    […] the benighted stranger […] might have easily […] mistaken the hospitable mansion for a good, old-fashioned inn, such as have faded from this earth since the last mail coach and prancing tits took their last melancholy journey to the knacker's yard.

    1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

    No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

    1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46

Synonyms & antonyms

prepositionFor example.

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Translations

Ancient Greek οἷος
  • οἷος (hoîos)like
Arabic هَكَذَا
  • هَكَذَا (hakaḏā)like
Bulgarian като
  • като (kato)like
Catalan com ara
  • com aralike
Chinese Mandarin 諸如 /诸如
  • 諸如 /诸如 (zhūrú)like
Dutch zoals
  • zoalslike
Esperanto kiel
  • kiellike
Finnish lainen, kaltainen
  • lainenlike
  • kaltainenlike
French comme
  • commelike
German wie
  • wielike
Greek όπως
  • όπως (ópos)like
Hebrew כְּגוֹן
  • כְּגוֹן (kegón)like
Hungarian olyan…, mint/amilyen
  • olyan…, mint/amilyenlike
Italian come
  • comelike
Portuguese como
  • comolike
Romanian ca
  • calike
Russian тако́й ... как, тако́й как
  • тако́й ... как (takój)like
  • тако́й как (takój)like
  • как (kak)like
  • как наприме́р (kak naprimér)like
Spanish como
  • comolike
Turkish örneğin, gibi
  • örneğinlike
  • gibilike
Cite this entry
APA

such as. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/such%20as

MLA

“such as.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/such%20as. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “such as,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/such%20as.

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