In Latin, alibi was an adverb that meant “elsewhere.” When the word was first adopted into English in the 18th century, it was still limited to its adverbial use. A person on trial might be …

An alibi (/ ˈæləbaɪ /, from the Latin, alibī, meaning "somewhere else") is a statement by a person under suspicion in a crime that they were in a different place when the offence was committed.

He has a cast-iron (= very strong) alibi - he was in hospital the week of the murder.

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ALIBI definition: the defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed. See examples of alibi used in a sentence.

Definition of alibi noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

If you have an alibi, you can prove that you were somewhere else when a crime was committed. He manages to persuade both his wife and girlfriend to provide him with an alibi.

Alibi in Latin is an adverb meaning "in or at another place.'' Its earliest English uses, in the 18th century, are in legal contexts, both as an adverb and as a noun meaning "a plea of having …

usage: The earliest English uses of alibi are in legal contexts, both as an adverb (directly from Latin) meaning “in or at another place” and as a noun meaning “a plea of having been …

ALIBI meaning: 1 : a claim that you cannot be guilty of a crime because you were somewhere else when the crime was committed; 2 : evidence which shows that such a claim is true