Abreast
- adv. At the same time; simultaneously.
- adv. Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, “Two men could hardly walk abreast.”
- adv. Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel’s beam; — with of.
- adv. Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.