VIS-A-VIS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Vis-a-vis

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/vˈizəvi/ Listen

noun

Vis-a-vis n.

One who, or that which, is face to face with another; esp., one who faces another in dancing.

A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.

adverb

Vis-a-vis adv. Face to face.

See images of 'Vis-a-vis'

Etymology of 'Vis-a-vis'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Vis-a-vis" Quotes from Famous Books

... en arriere; first lady and vis-a-vis gentleman advance and retire. To secure brevity, en avant is always understood to imply en arriere when ...

— Routledge's Manual of Etiquette • George Routledge

... in by sub-hiring. He had tried to buy the building, since it served his purpose well, but came against a deed of trust and the Court of Chancery, and had wisely refrained from going any further into a matter which must bring him vis-a-vis with a Master in Chancery, with all the publicity which such ...

— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace

... immediately returned by the other person; and Grace running at once in the direction whence it came beheld an indistinct figure hastening up to her as rapidly. They were almost in each other's arms when she recognized in her vis-a-vis the outline and white veil of her whom she had parted from an hour and a half ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... will look in the glass, Hiram, you will observe that your point is not well taken," said my vis-a-vis, calmly. ...

— The Water Ghost and Others • John Kendrick Bangs

... appeared on the floor of the House and gave each member a petition from his own State. Even Miss Anthony, always calm in the hour of danger, on finding herself suddenly whisked into those sacred enclosures, amid a crowd of stalwart men, spittoons and scrap-baskets, when brought vis-a-vis with our champion, Mr. Hoar, hastily apologized for the intrusion, to which the honorable gentleman promptly replied, 'I hope, madam, yet to see you on this floor in your own right and in ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

More quotes...