🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

权威的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: quánwēi de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
authoritative/əˈθɔːrəteɪtɪv/
adjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4520 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这是一份权威的报告。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As adjective
  1. 1

    Proceeding from an official source or someone in authority; commanding and self-confident.

    "The historian wrote the most authoritative biography of Churchill."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin auctoritativus, from auctoritas (see authority).

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