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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

Et Cetera

/ˌɛt ˈsɛt(ə)ɹə/

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What does Et Cetera mean?

phrase

  1. Unabbreviated form of etc..

noun

  1. Something in addition, which can easily be understood.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˌɛt ˈsɛt(ə)ɹə/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˌɛkˈsɛt(ə)ɹə//ɪt ˈsɛt(ə)ɹə//ɪkˈsɛt(ə)ɹə/

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See this word in context.

Notwithstanding this “et cetera,” I must not omit to mention fish that Conseil will long remember, and with good reason.
Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues under the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #164
For to-day have the petty people become master: they all preach submission and humility and policy and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and NoneTranslated by Thomas CommonProject Gutenberg ebook #1998
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Neither Hamlet, nor Macbeth, nor Othello, nor Douglas, nor The Gamester, presented anything that could satisfy even the tragedians; and The Rivals, The School for Scandal, Wheel of Fortune, Heir at Law, and a long et cetera, were successively dismissed with yet warmer objections.
Jane AustenMansfield ParkProject Gutenberg ebook #141