Found Meaning
/ˈfaʊ̯nd/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past and past participle of find
nounFood and lodging; board.
Sentence Examples
You found me where no one else was looking.
My parents would repudiate my brother if they ever found out he was gay.
Suddenly he found himself awake and fully alert.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She ____ a lost key under the sofa cushion.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
After hours of searching, he finally ____ his lost wallet buried under a pile of old papers.
Word Origin & History
See find.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I'll only give you the usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, and found." / "And—what?" / "Found—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also."
— 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
"He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and found."
— 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 5:
"“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …”"
— 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
"Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance."
— 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter XXII, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 203:
"[…] being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts he founded his reasoning upon, and the nature of the deductions which were the result of his researches."
— 1827, [Alexander] Dirom, Remarks on Free Trade, and on the State of the British Empire, Edinburgh: […] Cadell & Co., […], Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, & Co., London, page 36:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She ____ a lost key under the sofa cushion.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
After hours of searching, he finally ____ his lost wallet buried under a pile of old papers.