Definitions for bought
bɔtbought

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Bought(noun)

   a flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent

2. Bought(noun)

   the part of a sling that contains the stone

3. Bought

   imp. & p. p. of Buy

4. Bought

   purchased; bribed

5. Bought

   of Buy

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Bought

   bawt, pa.t. and pa.p. of Buy.—Bought′en in an archaic form.

2. Bought

   bowt, n. a bight or bend: (Spens.) a twist or coil: the bend of a sling in which the stone is placed. [See Bight.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bought' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1395

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bought' in Written Corpus Frequency: #470

How to pronounce bought?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say bought in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bought in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bought in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bought in a Sentence

1. Phil Southerland:

   I nearly put our company out of business in 2010 ... because I bought 400 blood glucose monitors, and I took about 40,000 test strips in bike boxes to the Tour of Rwanda.

2. Rosie Beltren:

   Most important for me : health care. A lot of people need it, last week I bought one medicine, only one. $ 248.

3. Arstein Justnes:

   They should tell us where they bought them and show their papers, the physical tests are super sexy and what the public wants to know, but without an object's provenance, it is just unethical. And it helps the illicit market.

4. Jim Anderson:

   Once he bought into Former Bengals system, he was like a flower. He just blossomed, he gave Former Bengals an element Former Bengals didn't have. Former Bengals had complementary guys, but Cedric gave Former Bengals a missing element. He was a good man. He was one of my guys and it hurts. Life is too short.

5. Gloria Chapman:

   I still have deep-seated resentment that she didn't go to somebody, even the police, and say, 'Look, my husband bought a gun, and he said he was going to kill John Lennon.'.

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