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pardon me

pardon me phrase: sorry; said as an apology.

Phrase

pardon me

  1. (idiomatic) Sorry; said as an apology.
    • Pardon me for stepping on your foot.
  2. (idiomatic) Polite expression used to soften a contradiction.
    • Pardon me, but that is not true.
    Synonyms:
    pardon, what
  3. (Canada, US, idiomatic) Polite expression to ask someone to repeat an utterance.
    • Pardon me, I didn't hear you.

pardon me meaning in Bengali and Arabic

pardon me in Bengali

pardon me, excuse me
আফওয়ান aphōẇan

pardon me in Arabic

sorry, as an apology
عَفْوًا ʕafwan

Synonyms of pardon me

Questions about pardon me

What does pardon me mean?
Pardon me means sorry; said as an apology.
What is pardon me in Bengali?
Pardon me in Bengali is আফওয়ান (aphōẇan). See Pardon me meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is pardon me?
Pardon me is a phrase.

Words near pardon me in the dictionary

  1. pardners
  2. pardo
  3. Pardoe
  4. pardoes
  5. pardon
  6. pardon me
  7. pardon mon francais
  8. pardon mon français
  9. pardon monger
  10. pardon mongers
  11. pardon my francais

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pardon me (page history and authors); আফওয়ান (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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