🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

enfoque

Pronunciation / Transliteration: enfoque

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Approach/əˈproʊtʃ/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #800 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Necesitamos un nuevo enfoque."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A way of dealing with something.

    "We need a new approach to this problem."
As verb
  1. 1

    Come near or nearer to someone or something in distance or time.

    "The train is approaching the station."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'approach' originates from the Old French 'aprochier', which means 'to come near'. It evolved from the Latin 'approximare', meaning 'to come near to', reflecting a gradual shift in meaning from physical proximity to metaphorical closeness in various contexts.

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