EGAVE

ditto

About 1.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
  2. noun The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
  3. noun A suit of clothes of the same color throughout.
  4. noun A copy made by (run off by) a ditto machine (especially, a worksheet thus reproduced).
    Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment for my students.
  5. noun A copy; an imitation.
  6. adverb As said before, likewise.
  7. verb To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
  8. verb To make a copy using a ditto machine.

Similar words

ditto mark ibid same metoo duplicate sane idem all that same same self-same

Often followed by

ditto of for in to the with at on

Word family

ditto mark ditto marks dittoed dittoes dittoing dittos

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