Definitions for discovered
dis·cov·ered

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. ascertained, discovered, observed(adj)

   discovered or determined by scientific observation

   "variation in the ascertained flux depends on a number of factors"; "the discovered behavior norms"; "discovered differences in achievement"; "no explanation for the observed phenomena"

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Discovered

   of Discover

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'discovered' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1604

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'discovered' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3021

How to pronounce discovered?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say discovered in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of discovered in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of discovered in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of discovered in a Sentence

1. Kazutaka Niijima:

   In 2014, we discovered that Okutama was one of three Tokyo( prefecture) towns expected to vanish by 2040.

2. Andy Ubel:

   One of our key employees, a lab director, quit one day, and wouldn't tell us where he was going. And we only discovered later that he had downloaded a whole bunch of our data onto his own personal hard drive.

3. Erin Smith:

   Our founder Julie Church back in the 90s discovered an entire beach... was just covered in flip flops, what she saw were not just dead fish that had been trying to eat in their natural habitat, but turtles unable to come up on to land and actually hatch.

4. Scott Sheppard:

   I was so thrilled with the amount of public engagement over the Jupiter moon-naming contest that we've decided to do another one to name these newly discovered Saturnian moons, this time, the moons must be named after giants from Norse, Gallic or Inuit mythology.

5. Michael Dellegrazie:

   He was brought to the curb area where we were given a carrier, a Delta carrier, and some garbage bags and in one of the garbage bags was Alejandro, i was very careful that the handoff was done cleanly, so I opened the first garbage bag and in that I discovered something that shocked me. ... It was a blanket that was full of blood.

Images & Illustrations of discovered

Popularity rank by frequency of use