that is

Idioms  

1. Also, that is to say. To explain more clearly, in other words, as in It's on the first floor, that is, at street level, or We're coming next month, that is to say, in November. [Early 1600s] Also see under that's.

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Example Sentences

“That is a garden! And why in the name of the all-knowing Afterlife would I live among my mushrooms?”

From Literature

“Oh, wonderful. Let me guess. Follow the green light until I supposedly end up in a place that is not here?”

From Literature

“That is precisely what I’m telling you.”

From Literature

Everyone seemed to like them, even those who occasionally ate them, and rock bellies collected relationships in the same way squirrels gathered nuts—that is to say, with very little discretion.

From Literature

“Tonight you will enter the beautiful rest of the Afterlife. But it still feels fuzzy which realm that is supposed to be.”

From Literature

Related Words

• especially
• i.e.
• particularly
• specially
• specifically