Said Meaning
/sɛd/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past and past participle of say
adjMentioned earlier; aforesaid.
Sentence Examples
That's the stupidest thing I've ever said.
This is what I would have said.
Afterwards she was sorry for what she'd said.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He ____ to the team that the meeting would start at three o'clock.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The witness confirmed that she had ____ nothing to the suspect before the police arrived.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English sǣde, sæġde (preterite) and ġesæġd (past participle), equivalent to say + -ed.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore..."
— 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He ____ to the team that the meeting would start at three o'clock.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The witness confirmed that she had ____ nothing to the suspect before the police arrived.