N388/1669

言いわば

usually written using kana aloneadverb

いわば

so to speak, so to call it, as it were

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Example sentences

いわば彼かれは天才てんさいだ。

He is, so to speak, a genius.

この町まちはいわば私わたしの第二だいにの故郷こきょうです。

This town is, as it were, my second hometown.

彼女かのじょはいわばチームの柱はしらとなっている。

She is, so to speak, the pillar of the team.

その経験けいけんはいわば人生じんせいの学校がっこうだったと言いえるだろう。

That experience was, so to call it, a school of life.

彼かれらはいわば運命共同体うんめいきょうどうたいとして、困難こんなんを乗のり越こえてきた。

They have, as it were, overcome hardships as a community bound by fate.

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

fruit, nut; seed; (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.; content, substance

joint, knuckle; tune, melody; node (of a plant stem), joint, knot (in wood), knob; (notable) point, part; node

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floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

fruit, nut; seed; (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.; content, substance

joint, knuckle; tune, melody; node (of a plant stem), joint, knot (in wood), knob; (notable) point, part; node

sentence; composition, text, writings; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts), academia, literature; statement

price, cost; value, worth, merit

elephant (Elephantidae spp.)