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earned
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Princeton's WordNet
earnedadjective
gained or acquired; especially through merit or as a result of effort or action
"a well-earned reputation for honesty"; "earned income"; "an earned run in baseball"
GCIDE
earnedadjective
(Baseball) not resulting from an error by an opposing team; -- used in the phrase earned runs.
ChatGPT
earned
Earned refers to something acquired or received as a result of effort, hard work, or completion of a task. This could refer to income from a job, points in a game, a degree from a university, respect from peers, and so on. It implies that the person who earned something deserved or was entitled to it on the basis of their actions or achievements.
Webster Dictionary
Earned
of Earn
Editors Contribution
earnedverb
Verb form of the word earn.
They both earned a just sufficient income are delighted to be arranging their wedding together.
Submitted by MaryC on March 21, 2020
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'earned' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4663
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Anagrams for earned »
endear
neared
readen
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of earned in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of earned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of earned in a Sentence
He didn’t want me for the part, and I didn’t think he was right for the part, we both had to really learn how to respect each other, and we earned it.
He was super kind, he said,' It's yours, you earned it. Take it !' That was really cool of him.
Our mission is to provide timely access to earned health care and benefits for millions of Veterans. That is a responsibility that we do not take lightly.
With the intervention of the decades, I was seeing the pictures again with different eyes, and they were actually better than I remembered, i think they look incredible. Having let them sit there for 35 years, I've earned the right to be enthusiastic about them again. To me, they hold up very well.
The Assyrian community worldwide has been watching this case. What do you think our opinion of the U.S. government will be if they insist on ruining a man who has earned the utmost respect and gratitude of his people worldwide?
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