dittoes
dittoes is the plural of ditto.
Meaning of ditto
Noun
ditto (plural dittos or dittoes)
- That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
- [...] they entered a dismal-looking parlour, whose brick-red walls and ditto curtains were scantily lighted by a single lamp, though it was of the last new patent—[…]1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 127
- The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
- Synonyms:
- ditto mark, ditto sign, do., do
- A suit of clothes of the same color throughout.
- 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.
- A copy; an imitation.
- "You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans.1991, N. Romano-Benner with S. Murphy, “Convoking the muses of Cuenca”, in Americas, volume 43, number 1, page 6
Phrases with dittoes
Questions about dittoes
- What is dittoes the plural of?
- Dittoes is the plural of ditto.
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