Sold Meaning
/səʊld/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past and past participle of sell
adjConvinced, won over.
Sentence Examples
Shoes are sold in pairs.
We arrived at that plan out of pure desperation, but the book sold well.
She sold her car and bought a piano with the proceeds.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The car was too old and broken, so the owner finally ____ it for parts.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They finally ____ their old car and used the money to buy a new, more efficient model.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier and Danish sold (via Low German). Doublet of sol, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it?"
— 2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan:
"But were your will her sold to entertaine"
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
"Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers."
— 1601, William Barlow, A Defense of the Articles of the Protestant Religion in answer to a libell lately cast abroad:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The car was too old and broken, so the owner finally ____ it for parts.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They finally ____ their old car and used the money to buy a new, more efficient model.