Usually means: Literal translation of text word-for-word.
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  1. metaphrase: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. metaphrase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metaphrase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metaphrase: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metaphrase: Wordnik
  6. metaphrase: Wiktionary
  7. metaphrase: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. metaphrase: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Metaphrase, metaphrase: Dictionary.com
  10. Metaphrase: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Metaphrase: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. metaphrase: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Metaphrase: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. metaphrase: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. metaphrase: Free Dictionary
  16. metaphrase: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. metaphrase: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metaphrase)

▸ noun:  a literal, word-for-word translation.
▸ noun:  An answering phrase; repartee.
▸ verb:  to make such a literal translation.

Similar:
loan translation, retranslation, overtranslation, recast, trans., version, rephraser, autotranslation, rendition, back-translation, more...

Opposite:
paraphrase, free translation, loose translation, adaptation

Adjectives:
final, verbal, cumulative, mechanical, mere, greek, old

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Similar:
loan translation, retranslation, overtranslation, recast, trans., version, rephraser, autotranslation, rendition, back-translation, more...

Opposite:
paraphrase, free translation, loose translation, adaptation

Adjectives:
final, verbal, cumulative, mechanical, mere, greek, old



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