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sold^¹

/səʊld/ UK
[sɒʊ(ɫ)d] Estuary English, UK
/sɛlt/ Northumbria, UK
/soʊld/ US
/soʊld/ Canada
[soɫd] Canada
/səʉld/ Australia
[sɔʊɫd] Australia
/sɐʉld/ New Zealand
[sɒʊɫd] New Zealand
[sɔːɫd] New Zealand

Rhymes with -əʊld

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of sell

adjective more sold · most sold

informal Convinced, 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 d

sold^²

/səʊld/ UK
[sɒʊ(ɫ)d] Estuary English, UK
/sɛlt/ Northumbria, UK
/soʊld/ US
/soʊld/ Canada
[soɫd] Canada
/səʉld/ Australia
[sɔʊɫd] Australia
/sɐʉld/ New Zealand
[sɒʊɫd] New Zealand
[sɔːɫd] New Zealand

Rhymes with -əʊld

Where it comes from

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.

noun

obsolete salary; military pay But were your will her sold to entertaine

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: sold-out, oversubscribed, trafficked, marketing, sales, packaged, buyer, sale, saleable, disposal, deal, priced, passed, parted, divestment, obtainable

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Chicago

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@misc{sold_2026,
  title = {sold},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sold},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}