had

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Pronunciation
Verb
27 definition(s)
1 Definition

To possess, own.

Example Sentences
  • I have a house and a car.
2 Definition

To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

Example Sentences
  • Do you have the key? (not necessarily one's own key)
3 Definition

Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

Example Sentences
  • I have a really mean boss.
4 Definition

To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).

Example Sentences
  • Can I have a look at that?
5 Definition

To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

Example Sentences
  • Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
6 Definition

To experience, go through, undergo.

Example Sentences
  • He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
7 Definition

To be afflicted with, suffer from.

Example Sentences
  • He had a cold last week.
8 Definition

(auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.

Example Sentences
  • I had already eaten.
9 Definition

Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)

Example Sentences
  • They haven't eaten dinner yet, have they?
10 Definition

(auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.

Example Sentences
  • I have to go.
11 Definition

To give birth to.

Example Sentences
  • My mother had me when she was 25.
12 Definition

To engage in sexual intercourse with.

Example Sentences
  • He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
13 Definition

To accept as a romantic partner.

Example Sentences
  • Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
14 Definition

(transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

Example Sentences
  • They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
15 Definition

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.

Example Sentences
  • He had him arrested for trespassing.
16 Definition

(transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)

Example Sentences
  • I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
17 Definition

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.

Example Sentences
  • Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
18 Definition

To defeat in a fight; take.

Example Sentences
  • I could have him!
19 Definition

(obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).

Example Sentences
  • I have no German.
20 Definition

To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

Example Sentences
  • Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
21 Definition

To trick, to deceive.

Example Sentences
  • You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
22 Definition

(often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.

Example Sentences
  • I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
23 Definition

(often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.

Example Sentences
  • I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
24 Definition

To host someone; to take in as a guest.

Example Sentences
  • Thank you for having me!
25 Definition

To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

Example Sentences
  • I have two contacts on my scope.
26 Definition

(of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

Example Sentences
  • We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
27 Definition

To make an observation of (a bird species).