Given Meaning
/ˈɡɪv.n̩/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbpast participle of give
prepConsidering; taking into account.
Sentence Examples
The proliferation of Internet usage has given birth to a new generation of young people.
People are often quite skeptical about things unless given believable proof.
The competition judges were given a very difficult task.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Under the ____ circumstances, it was better to stay home.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____ the current economic conditions, the company decided to delay its plans for expansion until next year.
Word Origin & History
Morphologically give + -n.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"If, therefore, the amount of the annual importation into Europe can be known, and the relative proportion of the foreign commerce of the several nations by which it can be distributed can be ascertained, they give a rule sufficiently true, to ascertain the quantity of money which ought to be found in any nation, at any given time."
— 1791, Thomas Paine, “Miscellaneous Chapter”, in Rights of Man:
"Thus we have a double Christ: a real Christ, and a Christ, the one of faith, who never really existed; a Christ who has lived at a given time and in a given place, and a Christ who has never lived outside the pious meditations of the believer - the Christ, for instance, whom we find in the Gospel of St. John, which is pure contemplation from beginning to end."
— 1907, Pope Pius X, “Analysis of Modernist Teaching”, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis:
"Most people do not act consistently. Under certain circumstances a given person acts intelligently and under different circumstances the same person will act helplessly."
— 1976, Carlo M. Cipolla, “Frequency distribution”, in The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity:
"Example. Given a Derby Prophet, who has sent 3 different winners to 3 different betting-men, and given that none of the three horses are placed. Find the total Loss incurred by the three men (α) in money, (β) in temper."
— 1874, Lewis Carroll, “Chapter II: Dynamics of a Particle”, in The Dynamics of a Parti-cle, page 19:
"Given the narrow vision of the opposition, and given that it keeps saying the same things, I would like to know why these separatists—after all this is their real name—insist on continually misleading Quebecers and not telling them the truth."
— 1994 February 24, Eleni Bakopanos, parliamentary debates (House of Commons of Canada)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Debates_of_the_House_of_Commons_of_Canada_(Hansard)_-_Thursday,_February_24,_1994_-_Government_Orders):
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Under the ____ circumstances, it was better to stay home.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____ the current economic conditions, the company decided to delay its plans for expansion until next year.