Lost Meaning
/lɒst/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past and past participle of lose
adjHaving wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
Sentence Examples
One million people lost their lives in the war.
I have lost my wallet.
We always get lost in London.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She ____ her wallet while she was shopping at the store yesterday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We got ____ in the dense and unfamiliar forest, and it took us several hours to find our way back.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English loste, losede (preterite) and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed (past participle), from Old English losode (preterite) and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose + -t.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"They struck me also as being of surpassing interest as representing, probably with studious accuracy, the last rites of the dead as practised among an utterly lost people, and even then I thought how envious some antiquarian friends of my own at Cambridge would be if ever I found an opportunity of describing these wonderful remains to them."
— 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She ____ her wallet while she was shopping at the store yesterday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We got ____ in the dense and unfamiliar forest, and it took us several hours to find our way back.