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View synonyms for bought

bought

[ bawt ]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of buy.


adjective

  1. South Midland and Southern U.S. store-bought.

bought

/ bɔːt /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of buy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. purchased from a shop; not homemade
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • un·bought adjective
  • well-bought adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bought1

First recorded before 900, for the adjective for an earlier sense
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Idioms and Phrases

see under buy .
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Example Sentences

Myerson herself appears to have bought into that stigma, offering mixed to negative views on the Miss America pageant.

Along the way, Brinsley turned into a drug store, but it is not clear whether he bought anything.

In fact, I wrote 212 pages of a novel called The Discovery of Sex that was bought, and I pulled it.

When a top Mobutu confidant named Colonel Alphonse Bangala purchased the island, Lometcha bought shares.

On Oct. 7, I bought my ticket to Kiev 45 minutes before my flight.

Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.

Bob, the boy who had bought Squinty, the comical pig, laughed and clapped his hands.

So after some weeks of speculation, he bought himself a tablet, some pencils and took up the art of writing.

"I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.

Tip wore leaky boots all last winter, but when spring came he bought Mrs. Pulsifer a sewing machine.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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