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stolen

sto·len
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [stoh-luh n]
    • /ˈstoʊ lən/
    • /ˈstəʊ.lən/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [stoh-luh n]
    • /ˈstoʊ lən/

Definitions of stolen word

  • verb stolen past participle of steal. 1
  • verb with object stolen to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch. 1
  • verb with object stolen to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment. 1
  • verb with object stolen to take, get, or win insidiously, surreptitiously, subtly, or by chance: He stole my girlfriend. 1
  • verb with object stolen to move, bring, convey, or put secretly or quietly; smuggle (usually followed by away, from, in, into, etc.): They stole the bicycle into the bedroom to surprise the child. 1
  • verb with object stolen Baseball. (of a base runner) to gain (a base) without the help of a walk or batted ball, as by running to it during the delivery of a pitch. 1

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Origin of stolen

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; 1860-65 for def 5; Middle English stelen, Old English stelan; cognate with German stehlen, Old Norse stela, Gothic stilan

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Stolen

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

stolen popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% 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".

stolen usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for stolen

adj stolen

  • misbegotten — unlawfully or irregularly begotten; born of unmarried parents; illegitimate: his misbegotten son.

adjective stolen

  • abducted — Simple past tense and past participle of abduct.
  • appropriated — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
  • bagged — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
  • embezzled — Simple past tense and past participle of embezzle.
  • filched — Simple past tense and past participle of filch.

Antonyms for stolen

adj stolen

  • avantgarde — the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
  • causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
  • demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
  • deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
  • forgetive — inventive; creative.

adjective stolen

  • originative — having or characterized by the power of originating; creative.

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