˜yÐÄvlog

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word for word

adverb

  1. in exactly the same words; verbatim.
  2. one word at a time, without regard for the sense of the whole:

    She translated the book word for word.



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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of word for word1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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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.
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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.

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He echoed, almost word for word, a threat by Trump that “all hell is going to break out†if remaining hostages are not freed.

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The real opera sets Pushkin’s play, which was written as a response to Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,†word for word.

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"I sat down for 12 hours in one day, learning it word for word, note for note," he says.

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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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