Definition of etcetera
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: a number of unspecified additional persons or things
Updated on: 15 Jun 2018
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If yes, try to make even more dilutions (for example, adding one drop to 10 cups of water, etcetera) and test if your nose is still able to pick up the odorants in these samples.
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The Buhl Bar menu is heavy on the classics: The Old Fashioned, Whiskey Sour, Manhattan, martini, etcetera.
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There are events on parenting, cooking, diamonds, etcetera.
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The brave poetic writer, etcetera, a lifetime of screw-ups, moments of beauty and transcendence.
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But our great-great-great-etcetera grandparents had a skull that could hardly hold onto a hat, with a thick, protruding brow.
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Obviously teams have beat him, greater teams from the standpoint of what Golden State has been able to do, etcetera, San Antonio at a certain time.
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There are events on parenting, cooking, diamonds, etcetera.
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There are events on parenting, cooking, diamonds, etcetera.
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First Known Use of etcetera
1597
Origin and Etymology of et cetera
Latin
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