HOW TO PRONOUNCE
Et Cetera
/ˌɛt ˈsɛt(ə)ɹə/
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What does Et Cetera mean?
phrase
- Unabbreviated form of etc..
noun
- Something in addition, which can easily be understood.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɛt ˈsɛt(ə)ɹə/
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/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.
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.
More book examples (1)
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.