etcetera

1. 1.

   additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same

   “his report was full of etceteras”

   Broaderstuff

1. 1.

   continuing in the same way

   Synonymsand so forthand so onetc.

Other forms of etcetera

plural

etceteras·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about etcetera

What does etcetera mean?

etcetera means "additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in etcetera?

etcetera has 4 syllables: et-cet-e-ra. The stress falls on "et". In IPA it is /ˈɛtˈsɛtɚə/.

What is another word for etcetera?

Close synonyms include and so forth, and so on, etc.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is etcetera a common word?

etcetera is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with etcetera?

1 word rhymes with etcetera. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.