ditto

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Adverb
• HYPHEN: dit=to

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ditto, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -os)
1 (in accounts, inventories, lists, etc.) the aforesaid, the same.

Idiom

ditto marks inverted commas etc. representing 'ditto'. say ditto to colloq. agree with; endorse.

Usage

Often represented by '' under the word or sum to be repeated.
2 colloq. (replacing a word or phrase to avoid repetition) the same (came in late last night and ditto the night before).
3 a similar thing; a duplicate.
--v.tr. (-oes, -oed) repeat (another's action or words).

Etymology

It. dial. f. L dictus past part. of dicere say

THESAURUS

ditto

Doppelganger, Photostat, Xerox, accord, act like, actual thing, affect, afresh, again, agree, agree in opinion, agree with, alike, amount to, anew, as is, assume, balance, bis, bob, borrow, break even, burden, carbon, carbon copy, chant, chime in with, chorus, clone, close with, coequal, coequally, coextensively, coincide, coincidentally, come again, come to, come up to, compeer, concur, conform to, congruently, copy, correspond, correspondently, correspondingly, coterminously, counterfeit, counterpart, crib, da capo, de novo, dead ringer, do, do a repeat, do again, do like, do over, double, draw, dupe, duplicate, duplication, echo, encore, equal, equally, equipollent, equivalent, even, even off, exact counterpart, facsimile, fake, fall in with, fellow, forge, from the beginning, geminate, go along with, go like, go with, hectograph, hoke, hoke up, homograph, homonym, homophone, ibid, ibidem, idem, identical same, identically, imitate, ingeminate, just the same, keep pace with, knot, like, likewise, make like, manifold, match, match up with, mate, measure up to, meet, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, mirror, model, multigraph, multiply by two, no other, none other, once more, opposite number, over, over again, parallel, parrot, peer, plagiarize, quadruplicate, quote, reach, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reduplication, reecho, reflect, refrain, regurgitate, reincarnate, renew, repeat, repetend, repetition, replica, replicate, replication, representation, reproduce, reproduction, revive, ritornello, rival, run abreast, run to, same here, say again, selfsame, side with, simulate, spit and image, spitting image, stack up with, stat, strike in with, synonym, synonymously, the same, the same difference, the same way, tie, touch, trace, transcribe, triplicate, twice over, twin, two times, undersong, very image, very same

ROGET THESAURUS

ditto

Repetition

N repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run, battology, tautology, monotony, tautophony, rhythm, diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy, chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain, rehearsal, rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation, cuckoo, reverberation, drumming, renewal, twice-told tale, old story, old song, second edition, new edition, reappearance, reproduction, recursion, periodicity, repeated, repetitional, repetitionary, recurrent, recurring, ever recurring, thick coming, frequent, incessant, redundant, pleonastic, monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive, unvaried, mocking, chiming, retold, aforesaid, aforenamed, above-mentioned, above-said, habitual, another, repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more, ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo, again and again, over and over, over and over again, recursively, many times over, time and again, time after time, year after year, day by day, many times, several times, a number of times, many a time, full many a time, frequently, ecce iterum Crispinus, toujours perdrix, cut and come again, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, cantilenam eandem canis, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.