1 (written) to put your arms around sb as a sign of love or friendship
SYNHUG:
[V] They embraced and wept and promised to keep in touch. * [VN] She embraced her son warmly.
2 [VN] (formal) to accept an idea, a proposal, a set of beliefs, etc., especially when it is done with enthusiasm:
to embrace democracy / feminism / Islam * It is unlikely that such countries will embrace capitalist ideas.
3 [VN] (formal) to include sth:
The talks embraced a wide range of issues. * The word 'mankind' embraces men, women and children.
embrace noun [C,U]:
He held her in a warm embrace. * There were tears and embraces as they said goodbye. * the country's eager embrace of foreign influences
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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 embrace is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is embrace a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, embrace is tagged as verb.
Does embrace appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — embrace appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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