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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • pronoun Something that has been mentioned previously; the same.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The same; the same as above or before: used to avoid repeating something already written. Abbreviated id.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • preposition The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective The same.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin, from id, it; see i- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin idem ("the same").

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