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adverb \(ˌ)vər-ˈbā-təm\Definition of VERBATIM
: in the exact words : word for word <quoted the speech verbatim>
See Examples of VERBATIM
- <you can't just copy the encyclopedia article verbatim for your report—that's plagiarism>
- The New York Times reported that recent posts lambasting legislation against Wal-Mart came verbatim from the retailer's p.r. firm. —Sally B. Donnelly et al., Time, 20 Mar. 2006
- Around his eleventh year he compiled a sort of commonplace book in which he transcribed passages from his reading. … But these entries aren't rendered verbatim: [Arthur] Rimbaud expands and contracts his sources, plays with lines, exhibiting a very early, very organic sort of literary criticism. —Wyatt Mason, Harper's, October 2002
- “My own anxieties about mortality are tempered just slightly,” says [Ken] Burns (quoting, almost verbatim, his introduction to “Jazz's” companion coffee-table book), “by the notion that if we continue to try hard, we'll have a chance to hear Louis blow Gabriel out of the clouds.” —David Gates, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2001
- Some passages in the book are taken verbatim from the blog … —Publishers Weekly, 13 June 2005
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Origin of VERBATIM
Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Latin verbum word
First Known Use: 15th century
Related to VERBATIM
- Synonyms
- ad verbum, directly, exactly, word for word
- Antonyms
- inexactly
Rhymes with VERBATIM
2ver·ba·tim
adjective \(ˌ)vər-ˈbā-təm\Definition of VERBATIM
: being in or following the exact words : word-for-word <a verbatim report of the meeting>
Examples of VERBATIM
- Was Coleridge's “Table Talk,” as recorded by his circle, his words or theirs—or a conflation of both? And what about Boswell, the most celebrated auditor of them all, who composed a masterpiece of English literature out of the supposedly verbatim speech of Samuel Johnson? Did Johnson begin his every declaration with an orotund “Sir?” —James Atlas, New York Times Magazine, 23 June 1991
- Some readers may unfortunately be made mistrustful of the authors' findings by their attempts to enliven the book with unverifiable—if inconsequential—details about the settings of events and by occasionally presenting unrecorded conversations of four decades ago in the form of verbatim quotations. —Henry Ashby Turner, New York Times Book Review, 22 June 1986
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Origin of VERBATIM
(see 1verbatim)
First Known Use: 1613
Rhymes with VERBATIM
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