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.
Origin of word for word
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for word for word
Contemporary Examples of word for word
Conor has described, all but word-for-word, the position of the evangelical “post-culture warrior.”
Historical Examples of word for word
"Women and children starboard," came like a near, word-for-word echo.
AtlantisGerhart Hauptmann
Full hieroglyphic text, interlinear transliteration, word-for-word translation, smooth translation.
But the chief instrument of her vindication is the word-for-word record of her trial at Rouen in 1431.
How France Built Her CathedralsElizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
The impossibility of such a thing as a word-for-word bringing over from one language into another.
Defense of the Faith and the Saints (Volume 1 of 2)B. H. Roberts
word for word
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.