shown

CEFRA2

/ʃəʊn/

verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    Allowed someone to see or understand something.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    A surname.

Examples

  • Because of some technical problem, a movie was shown in place of the announced program.

  • I admire the passion and commitment shown by the players.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1

Also pronounced

  • /ʃoʊn/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meaning

  1. past participle of show

More examples

In context

  • No one has shown up as yet, but we're expecting at least 50 students.

  • I had shown him the report already.

  • The report had already been shown to him.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

After the experiment, the results were blank to the entire scientific community.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English schauen, schewen (past participle), alternative form of schawid, schewed, past participle of Middle English schewen (“to show”). Morphologically equivalent to show + -n.