adv
Meaning 1
As said before, likewise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ditto
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɪtəʊ/
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US: /ˈdɪtoʊ/
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US: [ˈdɪɾoʊ]
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rhymes with -ɪtəʊ
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CMU ARPABET: D IH1 T OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
intj
Meaning 2
Used as an expression of agreement with what another person has said, or to indicate that what they have said equally applies to the person being addressed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I'm really busy today! —Ditto!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ditto mark, ditto sign, do., do
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A suit of clothes of the same color throughout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, in-plural
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noun
Meaning 6
A copy made by (run off by) a ditto machine (especially, a worksheet thus reproduced).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
Topics: education
Examples
- Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment for my students.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dupe, copy
noun
Meaning 7
A copy; an imitation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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verb
Meaning 8
To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ape, echo
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To make a copy using a ditto machine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, ambitransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: copy, reproduce
noun
Meaning 10
a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ditto mark
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mark
verb
Meaning 11
repeat an action or statement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The next speaker dittoed her argument
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell
History
Etymology
First attested in 1625. From regional Italian ditto, variant of detto, past participle of dire (“to say”), from Latin dīcō (“to say, to speak”). Not related to English dittography. The specific meaning of making copies of paper comes from ditto machine, a genericization from the brand name of a spirit duplicator.
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: същото (sǎštoto) — the aforesaid
- Bulgarian: горното (gornoto) — the aforesaid
- Czech: detto — the aforesaid
- Dutch: d:o — the aforesaid
- Finnish: edelläsanottu — the aforesaid
- Finnish: yllämainittu — the aforesaid
- Finnish: ylläoleva — the aforesaid
- French: idem — the aforesaid
- French: dito — the aforesaid
- German: dito — the aforesaid
- Hebrew: כנ״ל — the aforesaid
- Hebrew: אותו דבר — the aforesaid
- Hungarian: dettó — the aforesaid
- Hungarian: úgyszintén — the aforesaid
- Italian: detto — the aforesaid
- Italian: predetto — the aforesaid
- Italian: idem — the aforesaid
- Italian: come sopra — the aforesaid
- Italian: soprascritto — the aforesaid
- Italian: idem come sopra — the aforesaid
- Polish: jak wyżej — the aforesaid
- Polish: to samo — the aforesaid
- Portuguese: dito — the aforesaid
- Portuguese: de acordo — the aforesaid
- Portuguese: idem — the aforesaid
- Russian: то же самое (to že samoje) — the aforesaid
- Sicilian: comu dittu — the aforesaid
- Slovak: detto — the aforesaid
- Slovak: taktiež — the aforesaid
- Spanish: ídem — the aforesaid
- Swedish: dito — the aforesaid
- Swedish: d:o — the aforesaid
- Vietnamese: như trên — the aforesaid
- Vietnamese: nt — the aforesaid
- Bulgarian: копие (kopie) — informal: duplicate
- Dutch: kopietje — informal: duplicate
- Finnish: kopsu — informal: duplicate
- French: copie — informal: duplicate
- German: Dublikat — informal: duplicate
- German: Kopie — informal: duplicate
- Hungarian: másolat — informal: duplicate
- Italian: fac-simile — informal: duplicate
- Russian: ко́пия (kópija) — informal: duplicate
- Swedish: kopia — informal: duplicate
- Turkish: kopya — informal: duplicate
- Czech: detto — ditto mark
- Dutch: herhalingsteken — ditto mark
- Finnish: lainausmerkki — ditto mark
- Finnish: toistomerkki — ditto mark
- German: Unterführungszeichen — ditto mark
- Greek: ομοιωματικά (omoiomatiká) — ditto mark
- Hungarian: macskaköröm — ditto mark
- Portuguese: idem — ditto mark
- Spanish: signo de ídem — ditto mark
- Bulgarian: повтарям (povtarjam) — (transitive) To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc
- Italian: idem — (transitive) To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc
- Russian: повторя́ть (povtorjátʹ) — (transitive) To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc