| how | |
| 1. adv. To what degree. | |
| How often do you practice? | |
| 2. adv. In what manner. | |
| How do you solve this puzzle? How else can we get this finished? | |
| 3. adj. In what state. | |
| How are you? | |
| How was your vacation? | |
| 4. adj. Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation. | |
| How very interesting! How wonderful it was to receive your invitation. | |
| 5. n. The means by which something is accomplished. | |
| I am not interested in the why, but in the how. | |
| 6. conj. In which way; in such way. | |
| I remember how to solve this puzzle. | |
| 7. conj. That, the fact that, the way that. | |
| 8. n. (dialectal) An artificial barrow or tumulus. | |
| 9. n. (dialectal) A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.) | |
| 10. interj. A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech. | |
