🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

非官方

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fēi guānfāng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Non-Official/nɒn əˈfɪʃ.əl/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这份非官方报告提供了不同的见解。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not recognized or sanctioned by an official authority.

    "The non-official report provided insights that differed from the government's findings."
  2. 2

    Relating to activities or documents that are not formally authorized.

    "He attended a non-official meeting to discuss the upcoming changes."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'non-official' is a compound word formed from the prefix 'non-', derived from Latin 'non', meaning 'not', and 'official', which comes from the Latin 'officialis', meaning 'pertaining to duty or office'. The term has evolved to describe something that is not recognized or sanctioned by an authority.

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