ejusdem generis
C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The interpretive canon by which general words following a list take their meaning from the listed items' shared class.
Under ejusdem generis, 'other vehicles' after cars and vans won't stretch to aircraft.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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