Dictionary Entry
retained
Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ɹɪˈteɪnd/Word FrequencyCommon (4.92)Curriculum FrequencyLess common (1)To keep in possession or use.
In a Sentence
“Students can use retained to explain To keep in possession or use..”
Published Usage Examples
“Mr. Whyte is also the first jockey in Hong Kong to ever break four digits in career victories and has been champion jockey for the past 11 seasons—a title retained Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse to conclude the 2011 racing season.”
“The term retained the denotation of an aesthetic sensibility tied to a “pursuit”, and gained codification; you might say that the meaning changed from “pursuit” to “traditional pursuit” because even though the suffix occasionally appears on the tail-end of practices not thought of as traditionally Japanese “yakyuudou””
This entry also appears in ReadingWillow Year 10 word lists, so students can move between the dictionary and year-level study sets.
Origin
From Latin 'retinere', meaning 'to hold back or keep'.
Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “retained”
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