alibi

Borrowed from Latin alibī (“elsewhere, at another place”, adverb).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.ə.baɪ/

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alibi (plural alibis)

1. (law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.

   to set up an alibi

   to prove an alibi

   • 1988, Criminal Law Deskbook, →ISBN:

     Alibi is different from all of the other defenses . . . it is based upon the premise that the defendant is truly innocent.

2. (sometimes proscribed) An excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame.

• A very good alibi might be described e.g. as perfect, watertight, airtight, solid or iron-clad.
• Some argue this cannot be used in the non-legal sense of "an explanation or excuse to avoid blame or justify action."

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alibi (third-person singular simple present alibis or alibies, present participle alibiing, simple past and past participle alibied)

1. To provide an alibi for.
2. To provide an excuse for.

• Alibi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Defense (legal) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Locked-room mystery on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Perfect murder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• baili

Borrowed from Latin alibī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.liˌbi/

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• Hyphenation: ali‧bi

alibi n or m (plural alibi's, diminutive alibietje n)

1. alibi

• → Indonesian: alibi

Borrowed from Latin alibi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlibi/, [ˈɑlibi]
• Rhymes: -ɑlibi
• Syllabification^(key): a‧li‧bi

alibi

1. alibi

Borrowed from Latin alibi.

• IPA^(key): /a.li.bi/

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alibi m (plural alibis)

1. alibi

• “alibi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch alibi, from Latin alibī (“elsewhere, at another place”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈali.bi]
• Hyphenation: ali‧bi

alibi (first-person possessive alibiku, second-person possessive alibimu, third-person possessive alibinya)

1. alibi:
   1. (law) the plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed.
   2. (slang) excuse

      Synonym: alasan

• “alibi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Latin alibi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.bi/
• Rhymes: -alibi
• Hyphenation: à‧li‧bi

alibi m (invariable)

1. alibi

• Libia, abili, bilia

• aliubi (rare)

From alius (“other, another”) + ibī.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.biː/, [ˈälʲɪbiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.li.bi/, [ˈäːlibi]

alibī (not comparable)

1. elsewhere, somewhere else

• “alibi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alibi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alibi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Learned borrowing from Latin alibī.[1][2] First attested in 1802.[3][4]

• IPA^(key): /aˈli.bi/

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• Rhymes: -ibi
• Syllabification: a‧li‧bi

alibi n

1. (law) alibi (plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed)
2. (literary) alibi (excuse, especially one used to avoid responsibility or blame)

• Pęzik, Piotr; Przepiórkowski, A.; Bańko, M.; Górski, R.; Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎, Wydawnictwo PWN

• alibi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alibi in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “alibi”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 24

From French alibi.

alibi n (plural alibiuri)

1. alibi

alibi

1. stone tiles of a roof

àlībi m (Cyrillic spelling а̀лӣби)

1. alibi

Borrowed from Latin alibī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalibi/

alibi n

1. alibi

Indeclinable.

• alibi in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk