Usually means: Restating text with different words.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word paraphrase:

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  1. paraphrase: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. paraphrase: Merriam-Webster
  3. paraphrase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. paraphrase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. paraphrase: Collins English Dictionary
  6. paraphrase: Vocabulary.com
  7. Paraphrase, paraphrase: Wordnik
  8. paraphrase: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. paraphrase: Wiktionary
  10. paraphrase: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. paraphrase: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. paraphrase: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. paraphrase: Dictionary.com
  14. paraphrase (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. paraphrase: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Paraphrase (disambiguation), Paraphrase: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Paraphrase: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. paraphrase: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. paraphrase: Rhymezone
  20. paraphrase: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. paraphrase: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. paraphrase: FreeDictionary.org
  23. paraphrase: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. paraphrase: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paraphrase: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. paraphrase: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See paraphrasable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning or from memory rather than verbatim.
noun:  (Scotland) One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase. To repeat a written or spoken phrase/quote using different words, often in a simpler and shorter form, or sometimes in a humorous context.

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