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. Chen Wei-ting:

   What would Taiwan be like now if we hadn't organized those protests? all these industries - publishing, telecoms, tourism - would have been bought up by large Chinese interests.

2. Brendan Dunne:

   I generally don't believe in and am not interested in treating the sneakers I've bought and collected purely as an investment.

3. Marcela Ruiz-Tagle:

   Many people that would have bought their home this year decided to do it last year so as not to pay the home tax that came about with the tax reform, so the fall in home sales was a predictable phenomenon.

4. Peter DeFazio:

   We're worried about the 2 million people who bought or got toy drones for Christmas the last couple of years who are regularly flying in violation of the law.

5. Emmanuel Macron:

   My only goal is to spur the creation of a lot of companies, i have no problem with the fact that some of them are bought by U.S. companies, as long as they don't have critical technology.

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