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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

Demostrar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: de.mos'tɾaɾ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Demonstrate/ˈdɛmənstreɪt/
verbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Usó un diagrama para demostrar el concepto."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To show clearly and deliberately; to prove or make evident.

    "The teacher used a diagram to demonstrate the concept of gravity."
  2. 2

    To express or show an emotion or feeling.

    "He demonstrated his excitement by jumping up and down."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'demonstrate' originates from the Latin 'demonstrāre', which means 'to point out' or 'to show'. It evolved through Middle English, where it retained the meaning of showing or proving something clearly.

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