sold

verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//səʊld//
United States//soʊld//
/[sɒʊ(ɫ)d]/
//sɛlt//

Convinced, won over.

verb

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Also a form of sellsimple past and past participle of sell

adjective

1
informalConvinced, won over.
I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it?

noun

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obsoletesalary; military pay
But were your will her sold to entertaine
Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers.

Etymology

From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier and Danish sold (via Low German). Doublet of sol, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.

Forms

comparative: more sold
superlative: most sold

SOL · Space-occupying lesion of the brain can be caused by…solace · Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.solar · Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun.

sold · Convinced, won over.

soldier · A member of a ground-based army, of any rank, but especially…Soldier · A tiny city in Monona County, Iowa.sole · Only.

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