ditto
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
ditto (plural dittos)
- That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 14, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, OCLC 28228280 ↗:
- A spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners.
- (informal) A duplicate or copy of a document, particularly one created by a spirit duplicator.
- Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment, for my students.
- A copy; an imitation.
- A symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), when indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
- (historical, in the plural) A suit of clothes of the same colour throughout.
- (symbol) ditto mark, do#Abbreviation|do (abbreviation)
- French: idem, dito
- German: dito
- Italian: detto, predetto, idem, come sopra, soprascritto, idem come sopra
- Portuguese: dito, de acordo, idem
- Russian: то же самое
- Spanish: ídem
- Italian: fac-simile
- Russian: ко́пия
- German: Unterführungszeichen
- Portuguese: idem
ditto (not comparable)
- As said before, likewise.
ditto (dittos, present participle dittoing; past and past participle dittoed)
- (transitive) To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
- 1989, K. K. N. Kurup, Agrarian struggles in Kerala
- The Communists believed that Prakasam, the Prime Minister, never tried to check the bureaucracy but dittoed every action of the corrupt officials and police.
- 1989, K. K. N. Kurup, Agrarian struggles in Kerala
- Italian: idem
- Russian: повторя́ть
- Used to show agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.
- - I'm really busy today!
- Ditto!
- - I'm really busy today!
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