7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
adjective being up to particular standard or level especially in being up to date in knowledge
adverb alongside each other, facing in the same direction
originFrom Middle English abrest. By surface analysis, a- (“on, at”) + breast, meaning “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”; roughly “breast-by-breast”.
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