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used
English
Etymology
From Middle English used, equivalent to use +? -ed.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ju?zd/
- (past of use): enPR: yo?ozd, IPA(key): /ju?zd/
- (auxiliary verb): IPA(key): /ju?zd/, /ju?st/
- Rhymes: -u?st
Verb
used
- simple past tense and past participle of use
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
- You used me!
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
- (intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]
- He used to live here, but moved away last year.
Adjective
used (comparative more used, superlative most used)
- That is or has or have been used.
- That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
- Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"
- Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.
- 1965, Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"
Synonyms
- (having been used):
- (previously owned by someone else): pre-owned, second-hand
Antonyms
- (having been used): unused
- (previously owned by someone else): new
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- usedness
Translations
See also
- used to
Anagrams
- Dues, desu, dues, duse, sued
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archaic
English
Alternative forms
- archæic (old-fashioned)
- archaeic (rare or old-fashioned)
- archaïc
- archaick (obsolete)
Etymology
From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ??????? (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ???? (arkh?, “beginning, origin”), from ???? (árkh?, “I am first”), from ???? (árkh?, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erg?- (“to begin, rule, command”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
Noun
archaic (plural archaics)
- (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American?paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
- 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
- [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
- 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
- (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
- 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
- [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
- 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
Adjective
archaic (comparative more archaic, superlative most archaic)
- Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
- (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
- (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period
Synonyms
- (old-fashioned): dated, obsolete, old fashioned; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Derived terms
- archaically, archaism, archaicy
Related terms
Translations
References
- archaic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “archaic”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
- The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 1998
Anagrams
- arachic
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