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find
- /ˈfɑjnd/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈfaɪ̯nd/ US, UK
- /ˈfa̝ːn(d)/ Multicultural London English
- /ˈfʌɪ̯nd/ Canada, dialectal
- [fəi̯nd] Canada, dialectal
- /ˈfɪnd/ Northumbria
- /ˈfəɪ̯n/
- /ˈfɑ̟ɪ̯nd/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ˈfaːnd/
Sounds like fined · Rhymes with -aɪnd
Where it comes from
From Middle English finden, from Old English findan, from Proto-West Germanic *finþan, from Proto-Germanic *finþaną, a secondary verb from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to go, pass; path bridge”).
See also West Frisian fine, Low German finden, Dutch vinden, German finden, Danish finde, Norwegian Bokmål finne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish finna; also English path, Old Irish étain (“I find”), áitt (“place”), Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “ford”), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊), Sanskrit पथ (pathá, “path”), Proto-Slavic *pǫtь.
For the meaning development compare Proto-Slavic *najьti > Russian найти́ (najtí), akin to Proto-Slavic *jьti > идти́ (idtí); Russian находи́ть (naxodítʹ), нахо́дка (naxódka), akin to ход (xod), ходи́ть (xodítʹ).
verb finds · finding · found · fand
- To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. I found this shell on the beach.
- To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. I found my car keys. They were under the couch.
- To locate on behalf of another. I found you a new place to live
- To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end. Water is found to be a compound substance.
- To gain, as the object of desire or effort. to find leisure; to find means
- To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. Looks like he found a new vehicle for himself!
- To meet with; to receive. The proposal found little support within the government.
- To point out. He kept finding faults with my work.
- To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider. I find your argument unsatisfactory.
- To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish. to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person
- To supply; to furnish. to find food for workmen
- To provide for He finds his nephew in money.
- To determine or judge. The jury finds for the defendant.
- To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into. Peters finds Jinkins, who is running down the left wing.
- To discover game. They found at once, and there was a short sharp run, during which Linda and Tony, both in a somewhat showing-off mood, rode side by side over the stone walls.
noun finds
- Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent. One of the most exciting finds made by Chinese archaeologists within the last twenty years are the sites located in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning Province, particularly the Neolithic Hung-shan culture (c. 3500-2500 B.C.E.).
- The act of finding.
