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by all accounts
by all accounts
According to the information or reports that are available or from what people are saying. I don't know how we survived that plane crash; by all accounts, we should be dead right now! By all accounts, this film is the best one of the year!
by all accounts
Also, according to all accounts. From all reports available, from what everyone is saying. For example, By all accounts the party was a great success, or They spent a fortune on their cruise, according to all accounts. These phrases rely on account in the sense of "a particular report or description of some event." [Late 1700s]
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Sha'ul | | - | Biblical Hebrew |
Alena | | - | German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene |
Katida | | kah-TEE-dah | Esperanto |
Selma | | SEL-mə (English), ZEL-mah (German) | English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic |
Yuuna | | yoo:-nah | Japanese |
Murdag | | - | Scottish |