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vis-à-vis
[vee-zuh-vee; Fr. vee-za-vee] adverb, adjective, preposition, noun, plural -vis [-veez; Fr. -vee] . adverb
1.
face to face: They sat vis-à-vis at the table.
adjective
2.
face-to-face: a vis-à-vis encounter.
3.
Numismatics. (of a coin) having two portraits facing each other.
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Vis-a-vis
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
preposition
4.
in relation to; compared with: income vis-à-vis expenditures.
5.
facing; opposite: They were now vis-à-vis the most famous painting in the Louvre.
noun
6.
a person face to face with or situated opposite to another: He offered a cigarette to his vis-à-vis.
7.
a date at a social affair: She introduced her vis-à-vis to the hostess.
8.
a person of equal authority, rank, or the like: my vis-à-vis in the Louisville office.
9.
a carriage in which the occupants sit face to face.
10.
Furniture. tête-à-tête (def. 2).
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Word Origin & History
vis-à-vis
1753, from Fr. prepositional use of the adj. vis-à-vis "face to face," from O.Fr. vis "face" (see visage).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
vis-à-vis [(vee-zuh-vee)]Relative to; compared with: “She performed well vis-à-vis the rest of the competitors.”
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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