Ditto

Quick meaning: Ditto is a noun meaning That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.

Meaning

That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.

More Meanings

1. (education, now uncommon) A copy made by (run off by) a ditto machine (especially, a worksheet thus reproduced).
2. (by extension) A copy; an imitation.
3. As said before, likewise.
4. (transitive) To repeat the aforesaid, the earlier action etc.
5. (US, ambitransitive) To make a copy using a ditto machine.
6. The ditto mark, 〃; a symbol, represented by two apostrophes, inverted commas, or quotation marks (" "), indicating that the item preceding is to be repeated.
7. (historical, in the plural) A suit of clothes of the same color throughout.

Example Sentences

Mr. Zappadia gave each student a ditto of a black-and-white cow.

Please run off twenty-four dittos of this assignment for my students.

[…]a spacious table in the centre, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners:[…]

"You've got to look good to feel good," she announces, a ditto of television slogans.

Word Forms

• dittos
• dittoes
• dittoing
• dittoed

Synonyms for ditto

Depending on context, synonyms include do, ape, echo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ibid, same, metoo, duplicate, sane, self-same.

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