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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954)
  2. verb turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward

Etymology

From Late Latin ēvertere (“to turn (an item of clothing) inside out”), Latin ēvertere, present active infinitive of ēvertō (“to turn upside down; to overturn; to reverse”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’)) + vertō (“to reverse; to revolve, turn; to turn around”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)).

In classic literature

Synonyms

Chris Evert, Chrissie Evert, Christine Marie Evert

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