WordDictionary

Noun:

• A manner in which a problem is solved or policy is made.
• An access, or opportunity of drawing near.
• A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. — Thomas Babington Macaulay.
• bowling The area before the lane, in which a player may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
• used only in the plural|fortification The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
• used only with the plural '''approaches''' Movements to gain favor; advances.
• golf A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club.
• The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
• The way a plane lands at an airport.

Verb:

• transitive|military To take approaches to.
• intransitive To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
• intransitive To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate.
• transitive To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.