All 6 Uses
respective
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The Namesake
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- Ashima's pet name is Monu, Ashoke's is Mithu, and even as adults, these are the names by which they are known in their respective families, the names by which they are adored and scolded and missed and loved.†
Chpt 2respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
- But soon enough they are conversing easily, as they had before, exchanging tales of their respective holidays.†
Chpt 5 *
- She decides to send a card to each of them, shifting the respective name to the top of the card: to her husband's apartment in Cleveland, to Gogol in New York, adding Maxine's name, too.†
Chpt 7
- The Saturday of the wedding they pack suitcases, rent a car, and drive down to New Jersey, separating only when they get to the hotel, where they are claimed one last time by their respective families.†
Chpt 9
- He recognizes a few familiar faces tonight: Edith and Colin, who teach sociology at Princeton and Yale, respectively, and Louise and Blake, both Ph.†
Chpt 9respectively = separately in the specified order
- He wonders how his parents had done it, leaving their respective families behind, seeing them so seldom, dwelling unconnected, in a perpetual state of expectation, of longing.†
Chpt 12respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
Definitions:
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(1)
(respective) relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)