adv
Meaning 1
Holding or clasping hands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- The couple strolled down the sidewalk, hand in hand.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
hand in hand
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adv
Meaning 2
Naturally, ordinarily or predictably together; commonly having a correlation or relationship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, not-comparable
Examples
- The tendency to follow trends and explore one's sense of self goes hand in hand with being a teenager.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
Just; fair; equitable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 4
clasping each other's hands
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they walked hand in hand
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 5
together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- hand in hand with hope went fear
- doctors and nurses work hand in hand to save lives
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Dates back at least to Old English hand on handa, of the same meaning.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: de la mà — holding or clasping hands
- Chinese Mandarin: 手拉手地 (shǒu lāshǒu de) — holding or clasping hands
- Chinese Mandarin: 攜手地 /携手地 (xiéshǒu de, xīshǒu de) — holding or clasping hands
- Dutch: hand in hand — holding or clasping hands
- Finnish: käsi kädessä — holding or clasping hands
- Finnish: käsikkäin — holding or clasping hands
- French: main dans la main — holding or clasping hands
- German: Hand in Hand — holding or clasping hands
- Greek: χέρι-χέρι (chéri-chéri) — holding or clasping hands
- Hungarian: kéz a kézben — holding or clasping hands
- Hungarian: kézen fogva — holding or clasping hands
- Italian: a mani giunte — holding or clasping hands
- Italian: mano nella mano — holding or clasping hands
- Japanese: 手をつないで (te o tsunaide) — holding or clasping hands
- Latin: manibus nexis — holding or clasping hands
- Old English: hand on handa — holding or clasping hands
- Polish: ręka w rękę — holding or clasping hands
- Portuguese: de mãos dadas — holding or clasping hands
- Russian: рука́ о́б ру́ку (ruká ób rúku) — holding or clasping hands
- Spanish: de la mano — holding or clasping hands
- Turkish: el ele — holding or clasping hands
- Ukrainian: пліч-о-пліч (plič-o-plič) — holding or clasping hands
- Finnish: käsi kädessä — naturally together
- Finnish: kuulua — naturally together
- German: Hand in Hand — naturally together
- Greek: χέρι-χέρι (chéri-chéri) — naturally together
- Italian: mano nella mano — naturally together
- Polish: ręka w rękę — naturally together
- Russian: вместе (vmeste) — naturally together
- Russian: сообща (soobšča) — naturally together
- Russian: в тесном взаимодействии / связи (v tesnom vzaimodejstvii / svjazi) — naturally together
- Russian: рука́ о́б ру́ку (ruká ób rúku) — naturally together
- Ukrainian: рука́ в ру́ку (ruká v rúku) — naturally together