Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Again; twice. Used as a direction to repeat a passage.
  • interjection Used to request an additional performance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Twice.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of bi.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French or Italian, both from Latin; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]

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