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word for word
adverb
- in exactly the same words; verbatim.
- one word at a time, without regard for the sense of the whole:
She translated the book word for word.
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- word-for-word adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of word for word1
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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.Discover More
Example Sentences
Conor has described, all but word-for-word, the position of the evangelical “post-culture warrior.”
"Women and children starboard," came like a near, word-for-word echo.
But the chief instrument of her vindication is the word-for-word record of her trial at Rouen in 1431.
Second, Avoid word-for-word translations of English sentences in which the word you occurs.
All stories should be as nearly word-for-word as is possible.
The impossibility of such a thing as a word-for-word bringing over from one language into another.
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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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