conjunction
for the reason that:
I did it because he told me to. * Just because I don't complain, people think I'm satisfied.
because of preposition:
They are here because of us. * He walked slowly because of his bad leg. * Because of his wife('s) being there, I said nothing about it.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for because is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does because appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — because appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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