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dittoes

dittoes is the plural of ditto.

Meaning of ditto

Noun

ditto (plural dittos or dittoes)

  1. 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
  2. The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
  3. (historical, in plural) A suit of clothes of the same color throughout.
  4. (uncommon) 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.
  5. (broadly) 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

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What is dittoes the plural of?
Dittoes is the plural of ditto.

Words near dittoes in the dictionary

  1. ditto suits
  2. ditto worksheet
  3. ditto worksheets
  4. ditto, brother smut
  5. dittoed
  6. dittoes
  7. dittogram
  8. dittograms
  9. dittograph
  10. dittographic
  11. dittographies

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