sold
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of sold
3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of sell
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verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of sell
adj
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(informal)Convinced, won over.
“I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it?”
noun
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(obsolete)salary; military pay
“But were your will her sold to entertaine”
“Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers.”
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Etymology
From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier and Danish sold (via Low German). Doublet of sol, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.
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