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Definition of Etcetera

1. Adverb. Continuing in the same way.

2. Noun. Additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same. "His report was full of etceteras"

Definition of Etcetera

1. Noun. And the others, and the rest. ¹

2. Noun. And so on. ¹

3. Noun. (rare) Someone or something extra or superfluous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Etcetera

1. a number of additional items [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Etcetera

etat etat crible etat major etat mamelonne etatism etatisme etatismes etatisms etatist etatiste

etatistes etats etazolate etc etc. etcetera (current term) etceteras etch etchant etchants

etched etcher etchers etches etchi etching etching scribe etchings eten etendue

Literary usage of Etcetera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Documents Illustrative of English Church History by Henry Gee, William John Hardy (1896)
"THE etcetera OATH. 1640. THIS oath is inserted in Canon 6 of the foregoing;. It was to be taken by every clergyman, every Master of Arts not the son of a ..."

2. The History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Restoration by Francis Charles Montague (1907)
"1 Its proceedings merely inflamed the general ill-will to the bishops, and the "etcetera oath " became the favourite theme of puritan ridicule. ..."

3. Tolondron: Speeches to John Bowle about His Edition of Don Quixote; Together by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1786)
"... ^Definitions, Etymologies, Examples, etcetera; and I have ... Autos Sacramentales, etcetera! ..."

4. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1813)
"... and the whole etcetera of feudal pomp and high minded chivalry paced its now deser'cd halls, where the bat and toad assume the empire of the nicht, ..."

5. Puck on Pegasus by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, John Tenniel, Hablot Knight Browne, John Leech, George Cruikshank (1862)
"etcetera. JHE stars were out on the lake, es^k sail stirr'd the skiff; And faint on the billow, and fresh on the breeze, The summer came up thro' the ..."

6. Marion Harland's Complete Cook Book: A Practical and Exhaustive Manual of by Marion Harland (1906)
"STEWED FRUIT, PRESERVES, FRUIT JELLIES, MARMALADES, etcetera STEWED FRUIT Much of the excellence of stewed fruit depends upon the manner in which it is ..."

7. Capital (1888)
"The net profit, after deduction of depreciation, etcetera, of Rs. 4.5 ... But the expenditure on postage, telegrams, etcetera, declined from Rs. 1 lakh to ..."

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