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Tantamount

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈtæntəˌmaʊnt

Definitions

Something which has the same value or amount (as something else). (attributive use passing into adjective, below)

obsolete

Equivalents

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Examples

“For end⟳ thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount, he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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See also

Tantangara tantara Tantarabobus Tantaraboo Țânțăreni Tantawangalo

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