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word for word
adverb
- in exactly the same words; verbatim.
- one word at a time, without regard for the sense of the whole:
She translated the book word for word.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ·É´Ç°ù»å-´Ú´Ç°ù-·É´Ç°ù»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of word for word1
Idioms and Phrases
Exactly as written or spoken, as in That was the forecast, word for word . Chaucer used this idiom in the late 1300s.Example Sentences
They point to the statement given by a different man which they say is "almost identical, word for word" to the statement given by Kanwaljit Singh.
He echoed, almost word for word, a threat by Trump that “all hell is going to break out†if remaining hostages are not freed.
The real opera sets Pushkin’s play, which was written as a response to Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,†word for word.
"I sat down for 12 hours in one day, learning it word for word, note for note," he says.
At points, she repeated lines almost word for word: “When we organize, mountains move,†she said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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