pour ainsi dire — meaning in English
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English meaning
- virtually adv Almost entirely; for all practical purposes.
Senses
pour ainsi dire is used for these senses in English:
- as it were Used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not exact though practically right; as if it were so.
- in a manner of speaking As it were; figuratively speaking; in a manner, in a way, in a certain respect.
- so to speak In a manner of speaking.
- virtually Almost but not quite.
virtually — full definition
- adv Almost entirely; for all practical purposes.
- adv By means of a computer or the internet.