Paraphrase Definition

părə-frāz
paraphrased, paraphrases, paraphrasing
noun
paraphrases
A rewording of something spoken or written, usually for the purpose of making its meaning clearer.
Webster's New World
A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.
American Heritage
The use of this as a literary or teaching device.
Webster's New World
The adaptation or alteration of a text or quotation to serve a different purpose from that of the original.
American Heritage
An approximate rendering of a quotation, saying, etc. whose exact words cannot be cited or recalled.
Webster's New World
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verb
paraphrased, paraphrases, paraphrasing
To express in a paraphrase.
Webster's New World
To restate using different words, especially to clarify.
American Heritage
To compose a paraphrase.
Webster's New World
To adapt or alter (a text or quotation) to serve a different purpose from that of the original.
American Heritage

To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.

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Other Word Forms of Paraphrase

Noun

Singular:
paraphrase
Plural:
paraphrases

Origin of Paraphrase

  • French from Latin paraphrasis from Greek from paraphrazein to paraphrase para- alongside para–1 phrazein to show, explain gwhren- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Paraphrase Sentence Examples

  • In 1701 he published A Paraphrase upon the Gospel of St Matthew, which was followed, in 1702, by the Paraphrases upon the Gospels of St Mark and St Luke, and soon afterwards by a third volume upon St John.

  • The Itinerarium Regis Ricardi (formerly attributed to Geoffrey Vinsauf, but in reality the work of Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London) is little more than a free paraphrase of Ambrose.

  • He had been committed to the king's bench prison on the ridiculous charge of libelling the Church in his Paraphrase on the New Testament, and was tried before Jeffreys on this accusation.

  • To paraphrase Shakespeare, "The path to true love never did run straight".

  • He was also the author of rhetorical exercises on hackneyed sophistical themes; of a Quadrivium (Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, Astronomy), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the middle ages; a general sketch of Aristotelian philosophy; a paraphrase of the speeches and letters of Dionysius Areopagita; poems, including an autobiography; and a description of the Augusteum, the column erected by Justinian in the church of St Sophia to commemorate his victories over the Persians.

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