Meaning & use
et cetera
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Used to indicate that a list of items continues in a similar way; and so on.
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The store sells pens, notebooks, staplers, et cetera.
She listed her hobbies: reading, hiking, painting, et cetera.
A note on using this word
Often abbreviated as 'etc.'; it comes from Latin and is technically two words, though it's frequently written as one, 'etcetera,' in informal use.
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