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What (who) is Paraphrase - definition
RESTATEMENT OF THE MEANING OF A TEXT OR PASSAGE USING OTHER WORDS
Paraphrasing; Paraphrased; Paraphrasis; Summarizing; Paraphraser; Rephrasing; Rewording
![A paraphrase of the [[Book of Daniel]] placing in parallel prophecy and interprephrases](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan2parallel.jpg?width=200 "A paraphrase of the [[Book of Daniel]] placing in parallel prophecy and interprephrases")
paraphrase
(paraphrases, paraphrasing, paraphrased)
1.
If you paraphrase someone or paraphrase something that they have said or written, you express what they have said or written in a different way.
Parents, to paraphrase Philip Larkin, can seriously damage your health...
I'm paraphrasing but this is honestly what he said.
VERB: V n, V
2.
A paraphrase of something written or spoken is the same thing expressed in a different way.
N-COUNT: oft N of n
Paraphrase
·vi To make a paraphrase.
II. Paraphrase ·vt To express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the meaning of a passage in other language.
III. Paraphrase ·noun A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering;
- opposed to metaphrase.
paraphrase
n.
1.
Explanation (by amplifying), exposition.
2.
Free translation.
3.
Metrical translation.
Wikipedia
Paraphrase
A paraphrase () is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words. The term itself is derived via Latin paraphrasis, from Ancient Greek παράφρασις (paráphrasis) 'additional manner of expression'. The act of paraphrasing is also called paraphrasis.
Examples of use of Paraphrase
1. To paraphrase Orwell, some states are more equal than others.
2. But the futurist twist of (to paraphrase Peter D.
3. And to paraphrase Twain, clothes make the air guitarist.
4. To paraphrase Pink Floyd: Hey, Gordon, leave our kids alone.
5. Instead, to paraphrase our sages, when unions vie, conflict mounts.