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- [ri-turn]
- /rɪˈtɜrn/
- /rɪˈtɜːn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ri-turn]
- /rɪˈtɜrn/
Definitions of return word
- verb without object return to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work. 1
- verb without object return to revert to a former owner: The money I gave him returns to me in the event of his death. 1
- verb without object return to revert or recur, as in thought, discourse, etc.: He returned to his story. 1
- verb without object return to make a reply or retort: She returned with a witty sally. 1
- verb with object return to put, bring, take, give, or send back to the original place, position, etc.: to return a book to a shelf; to return a child to her mother; to return the switch to off position. 1
- verb with object return to send or give back in reciprocation, recompense, or requital: to return evil for good. 1
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Origin of return
First appearance:
before 1275 One of the 13% oldest English words
1275-1325; (v.) Middle English retornen < Middle French retorner, returner, Old French (see re-, turn); (noun) Middle English < Anglo-French retorn, return, derivative of Old French retorner, returner; (adj.) derivative of the noun
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Parts of speech for Return
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
return popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
return usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for return
verb return
- acknowledge — If you acknowledge a fact or a situation, you accept or admit that it is true or that it exists.
- answer back — If someone, especially a child, answers back, they speak rudely to you when you speak to them.
- ante up — If you ante up an amount of money, you pay your share, sometimes unwillingly.
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
noun return
- acknowledgment — An acknowledgment is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.
- acquisition — If a company or business person makes an acquisition, they buy another company or part of a company.
- acquittance — a release from or settlement of a debt, etc
- advantage — An advantage is something that puts you in a better position than other people.
- alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
adjective return
- inward — toward the inside, interior, or center, as of a place, space, or body.
Antonyms for return
verb return
- accroach — to assume to oneself without right or authority; usurp.
- adopt — If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
- assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
- borrow — If you borrow something that belongs to someone else, you take it or use it for a period of time, usually with their permission.
- break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
noun return
- advancement — Advancement is progress in your job or in your social position.
- anabases — any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
- anabasis — the march of Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries from Sardis to Cunaxa in Babylonia in 401 bc, described by Xenophon in his Anabasis
- appropriation — An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose.
- cribbing — the action of one that cribs
Top questions with return
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