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Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: Latin, from Greek, from paraphrazein 'to paraphrase'

paraphrase

2 noun
     
Related topics: Literature, Linguistics
paraphrase2 [countable]
ALSL a statement that expresses in a shorter, clearer, or different way what someone has said or written
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