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of a piece en · ADP

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From an obsolete sense of a (“the same”).

Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Of the same kind.
   • Strange as this expectation appears to us, it is quite of a piece with early modes of thought. 1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
   • Further along, the road passes a low E-shape of red-brick estate buildings, obviously modern, yet all of a piece with this sensible, attractive and businesslike village. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 375, about Terling:
   • Near-synonyms: all one, all the same, cut from the same cloth, of the same stripe, monolithic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see of, a, piece.

Deriveds

of a piece with

Relateds

same difference

Synonyms

monolithic · of a blood · all the same · cut from the same cloth · all one · of a kind · of a feather · of the same stripe

Translations (2)

de einheitlich (of the same kind) · de aus einem Guss (of the same kind)