cede
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
Definition of cede
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To give up; yield to another.
“Edward decided to cede the province.”
“In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.”
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verb
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(transitive)To give up; yield to another.
“Edward decided to cede the province.”
“In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.”
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(ditransitive, transitive)To give up; yield to another.
“After figuring out the seating arrangement and ceding him the window seat, I took my own seat by the aisle.”
- (intransitive)To give way.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin cēdō (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”). Cognate with Tocharian B kätk- (“to cross, pass”).
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