bought
[ bawt ]
/ bɔt /
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buy.
adjective
South Midland and Southern U.S.
store-bought.
OTHER WORDS FROM bought
un·bought, adjective well-bought, adjectiveWords nearby bought
bougainville,
bougainvillea,
bough,
boughed,
boughpot,
bought,
boughten,
bougie,
bougienage,
bouguer anomaly,
bouguer correction
Definition for bought (2 of 2)
Origin of buy
before 1000; Middle English
byen, variant of
byggen, buggen, Old English
bycgan; cognate with Old Saxon
buggjan, Gothic
bugjan to buy, Old Norse
byggja to lend, rent
synonym study for buy
1.
Buy,
purchase imply obtaining or acquiring property or goods for a price.
Buy is the common and informal word, applying to any such transaction:
to buy a house, vegetables at the market.
Purchase is more formal and may connote buying on a larger scale, in a finer store, and the like:
to purchase a year's supplies.
OTHER WORDS FROM buy
Example sentences from the Web for bought
British Dictionary definitions for bought (1 of 2)
bought
/ (bɔːt) /
verb
the past tense and past participle of buy
adjective
purchased from a shop; not homemade
British Dictionary definitions for bought (2 of 2)
buy
/ (baɪ) /
verb buys, buying or bought (mainly tr)
noun
a purchase (often in the phrases good or bad buy)
Word Origin for buy
Old English
bycgan; related to Old Norse
byggja to let out, lend, Gothic
bugjan to buy
usage for buy
The use of
off after
buy as in
I bought this off my neighbour was formerly considered incorrect, but is now acceptable in informal contexts
Idioms and Phrases with bought
bought
see under buy.