and so on
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1.4
- idiom
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etcétera
- The ingredients for the cake include flour, sugar, eggs, and so on.
- science and so on
- color and so on
- references and so on
I might just need, you know, planks, nails and so on, right?
- I might just need, you know, planks, nails and so on, right?
- If glucose is high, prescribe metformin and so on and so forth.
- And that identity questions, race, gender and so on sort of went along behind that.
- He said that he thought that tastes, odors, colours and so on reside in consciousness.
- He tortured people, he fixed elections and so on and so forth.
- So they would have appeared with muscles and flesh and so on very much like we do.
- SO dogs, cats, planes, trees and so on, OK, they're all in there.
- And the existence of atheists who don't rape and murder and so on seems to falsify that claim.
- Each has its writer, its director, its actors, and so on and so forth.
- you know, he wasn't all that well educated and so on, but he
Examples
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But you also need sunshine, river, air, trees, birds, elephants, and so on.
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I work for the state five days a week, typing and filing and so on.
Fiction book (1997) -
The way we dress comes from movies and so on, right?
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A is for apple and B is for boat and so on.
Fiction book (1997) -
We had the same kind of influences and teachers and so on when we were learning to play.
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So A is six, B is twelve, C is eighteen, and so on.
Fiction book (1995) -
English is everywhere: education, road signs, sports, politics, trade, tourism, conferences, and so on.
Academic text (2011) -
I must deal with technology, computer labs, curriculum, faculty, professional development, and so on.
Academic text (2013) -
The third student repeats the first two sounds and adds a third, and so on.
Academic text (2012) -
Acts in a play assume a temporality; the second act follows the first, and so on.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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3.5
Things or people similar to those just mentioned
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9.9
A short spoken word that shows there are more similar things not said
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1.7
Use it to show a list goes on with other similar things
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3.3
Shows there are other similar items in a list
How Casual
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'and other similar things' is directly inferable from the constituents: 'and' signals addition and 'so on' marks continuation/remaining items. This is a common discourse pattern with clear cross-linguistic equivalents (e.g. et cetera, y así sucesivamente, など), so a B1 learner who knows the words would readily understand it.
Etymology
And so on comes from the simple idea of a list that keeps going, like writing 'apple, banana, pear, ...' to show more items in the same group. So, it means 'the list continues'.