id est

phrase

Synonym of i.e. or that is.

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phrase
  1. Synonym of i.e. or that is.

    The air is robust, and the words, I am told, are very patriotic, id est self-glorificatory, but I do not care for them very much myself. One reason is that I am not a Dutchman, but the chief reason is that I do not understand them.

    1876 November 2, special correspondent, “The North Sea Canal”, in The Standard, number 16,313, London, published 6 November 1876, →OCLC, page 5, column 7
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    De Paor’s Clontarf pumping station — an angular, clanking, copper-clad bunker at the end of Vernon Avenue — will be finished within three months. Id est, a gritty, bent-tube lamp standard he designed for Clontarf, has been licensed for production by the London manufacturer, Urbis.

    2003 March 16, Shane O’Toole, “Architecture: Designer with a dream”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC

    Attorneys for D'Souza sent a letter to Google asking whether the low search placement of America -- which happens to share the name of a popular soft-rock band, as well as two continents and a country -- was due to "human or automated error." Id est, was Google rigging the game against D'Souza?

    2014 July 10, David Weigel, “Dinesh D’Souza, Effective Crybaby”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2014

    “Speaking to a compatriot and friend on 19 October 2016, a Kremlin insider provided further details of reported clandestine meeting/s between Republican presidential candidate, Donald TRUMP’s lawyer Michael COHEN and Kremlin representatives,” it said. Id est, the famous Cohen-Prague collusion conference.

    2019 December 13, Erik Wemple, “‘The story stands’: McClatchy won’t back off its Michael Cohen-Prague reporting”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2019

    Synonyms: i.e

Synonyms & antonyms

phraseSynonym of i.e. or that is.

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adverba figure of speech used as a way to provide further information, or to be more specific or exact about something

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Origin

  1. Latinid est
  2. Old Englishid est
  3. Middle Englishid est
  4. Englishid est

From Middle English id est, from Old English id est, from Latin id est.

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