DITTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ditto mean? 

• DITTO (noun)
  The noun DITTO has 1 sense:

1. a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated

  Familiarity information: DITTO used as a noun is very rare.

• DITTO (verb)
  The verb DITTO has 1 sense:

1. repeat an action or statement

  Familiarity information: DITTO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DITTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ditto; ditto mark

Hypernyms ("ditto" is a kind of...):

mark (a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation))

Derivation:

ditto (repeat an action or statement)

• DITTO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Repeat an action or statement

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The next speaker dittoed her argument

Hypernyms (to "ditto" is one way to...):

ingeminate; iterate; reiterate; repeat; restate; retell (to say, state, or perform again)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

ditto (a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated)

 Context examples 

"Ditto, ditto, Mr. Brooke," laughed Meg, looking young and pretty again, as she nodded to him over the teapot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Adele is a degree better, but still far below the mark; Mrs. Fairfax ditto; you, I am persuaded, can suit me if you will: you puzzled me the first evening I invited you down here.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Of course, there were many light-footed, shrill-voiced American girls, handsome, lifeless-looking English ditto, and a few plain but piquante French demoiselles, likewise the usual set of traveling young gentlemen who disported themselves gaily, while mammas of all nations lined the walls and smiled upon them benignly when they danced with their daughters.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)