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NOTA BENE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nota bene mean?
• NOTA BENE (noun)
The noun NOTA BENE has 1 sense:
1. a Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something
Familiarity information: NOTA BENE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Context example:
the margins of his book were generously supplied with pencilled NBs
Hypernyms ("nota bene" is a kind of...):
annotation; notation; note (a comment or instruction (usually added))
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