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

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. paraphrase: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. paraphrase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paraphrase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paraphrase: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paraphrase: Vocabulary.com
  6. Paraphrase, paraphrase: Wordnik
  7. paraphrase: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. paraphrase: Wiktionary
  9. paraphrase: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. paraphrase: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. paraphrase: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. paraphrase: Dictionary.com
  13. paraphrase (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. paraphrase: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Paraphrase (disambiguation), Paraphrase: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Paraphrase: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. paraphrase: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. paraphrase: Rhymezone
  19. paraphrase: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. paraphrase: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. paraphrase: Free Dictionary
  22. paraphrase: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. paraphrase: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. paraphrase: Dictionary/thesaurus

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.
noun:  (Scotland) One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) 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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