word for word
noun
1.
in exactly the same words; verbatim.
2.
one word at a time, without regard for the sense of the whole:
She translated the book word for word.
Origin
1350-1400;
Middle English
Related forms
word-for-word,
adjective
Examples from the web for
word for word
Yet observe, line for line and almost
word for word
, how strangely they differ from prose.
Memorize it, although perhaps not
word for word
, and time yourself.
In between was two pages taken
word for word
from a book of bios.
All translations need to be original,
word for word
translations.
Idioms and Phrases with
word for word
word for word
Exactly as written or spoken, as in
That was the forecast, word for word
. Chaucer used this idiom in the late 1300s.