SO-CALLED


Meaning of SO-CALLED in English

also so called

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

You use ~ to indicate that you think a word or expression used to describe someone or something is in fact wrong.

These are the facts that explode their ~ economic miracle...

ADJ: ADJ n

2.

You use ~ to indicate that something is generally referred to by the name that you are about to use.

...a summit of the world’s seven leading market economies, the ~ G-7...

ADJ: ADJ n

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