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   expatiate

   /ɪkˈspeɪʃɪeɪt/

   verb

   • 1. speak or write in detail about: "she expatiated on working-class novelists"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘roam freely’): from Latin exspatiari ‘move beyond one's usual bounds’, from ex- ‘out, from’ + spatiari ‘to walk’ (from spatium ‘space’).

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   • 1. expatiation noun

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   What does expatiate mean?

   • Get Word of the Day daily email! The meaning of EXPATIATE is to move about freely or at will : wander. How to use expatiate in a sentence. Did you know?

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   What does exspatiari mean in English?

   • Exspatiari means "to wander from a course" and, in the figurative sense, "to digress." But when English speakers began using "expatiate" in 1538, we took "wander" as simply "to move about freely." In a similar digression from the original Latin, we began using "expatiate" in a figurative sense of "to speak at length."

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   What is the root word of expatiate?

   • From the participle stem of Latin expatior, from ex- + spatior (“walk about”). expatiate (third-person singular simple present expatiates, present participle expatiating, simple past and past participle expatiated) To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.

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   What does it mean to expatiate on a piece of writing?

   • When you expatiate on a piece of writing, you add details. The goal is to make your ideas clearer to readers, perhaps by offering an example to help them understand. Teachers can tell when you are expatiating and when you are just adding to what you've written, say, to reach a certain length requirement. That's usually called "padding."

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   Expatiate means to move about freely or at will, or to speak or write at length or in detail. Learn the origin, synonyms, examples, and word history of expatiate from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   Expatiate means to speak or write about something in great detail or for a long time. Learn more about this formal verb, its synonyms and how to use it in sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus and the Hansard archive.

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   Expatiate means to enlarge in discourse or writing, or to wander about without restraint. Learn how to use this verb in a sentence, its synonyms and its etymology from Latin.

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   Expatiate means to enlarge or elaborate on a theme, topic, etc., or to wander about. Learn more about its origin, pronunciation, and examples from Collins Dictionary.

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   The verb expatiate means "to add details to in order to clear up." If your story is confusing to everyone who hears it, certain key parts must be missing. Better expatiate so that people can understand it.

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   Expatiate means to speak or write about something in great detail or for a long time. Learn more about this formal verb, its synonyms and how to use it in sentences from various sources.

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   Definition of expatiate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.