Due Meaning
/djuː/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOwed or owing.
adjAppropriate.
Sentence Examples
Your poor memory is due to poor listening habits.
I'm tied up with a project that is due Friday.
The team's success was largely due to her efforts.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The project is ____ for completion by the end of the month.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Your poor memory is ____ to poor listening habits.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne."
— 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:
"As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon."
— 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
"The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years."
— 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
"the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars"
— 1852, James David Forbes, “Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science”, in Encyclopædia Britannica:
"Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres."
— 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The project is ____ for completion by the end of the month.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Your poor memory is ____ to poor listening habits.