definitive
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle French définitif.
Pronunciation Adjectivedefinitive
- explicitly defined
- conclusive or decisive
- definitive vote
- She will have the definitive say in the matter, after consulting her board of directors.
- definite, authoritative and complete
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC ↗:
- A strict and definitive truth.
- 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC ↗:
- Some definitive […] scheme of reconciliation.
- limiting; determining
- a definitive word
- (philately) general, not issued for commemorative purposes
- (obsolete) Determined; resolved.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene i], line 424:
- Never crave him. We are definitive.
- Italian: definitivo
- Spanish: definitivo
- French: définitif, définitive
- German: endgültig
- Italian: definitivo
- Russian: оконча́тельный
- Spanish: definitivo, decisivo
- Italian: definitivo
- Spanish: autorizado, oficial
definitive (plural definitives)
- (grammar) a word, such as a definite article or demonstrative pronoun, that defines or limits something
- (philately) an ordinary postage stamp that is part of a series of all denominations or is reprinted as needed to meet demand
- Synonyms: definitive stamp
- French: timbre d'usage courant
- German: Dauermarke
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