🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

返回

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fǎnhuí

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Return/rɪˈtɜrn/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"回家的返回总是令人期待。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To come or go back to a place or person.

    "After a long vacation, I will return home."
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of coming back or giving something back.

    "The return of the lost artifact was celebrated by the museum."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'return' originates from the Old French 'retourner', which itself comes from the Latin 're- + tornare', meaning 'to turn back'. Over time, the meaning evolved to encompass both the act of coming back and the act of giving something back.

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