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Cede

Definitions: Cede

Cede

Verb

1. Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another.

2. Relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cede" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Cede \Cede\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Ceded; present participle verb or noun Ceding.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Cede

Synonyms: concede (v), deliver (v), give up (v), grant (v), surrender (v), yield (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cede

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Giving

Concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast; spend.

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

Submission

Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.

Success

Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria; cede repugnanti cedendo victor abibis; chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune; dies faustus; l'art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort; omnia vincit amor; "peace hath her victories no less renowned than war"; "the race by vigor not by vaunts is won"; vincit qui patitur; vincit qui se vincit; "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cede

English words defined with "cede": CededRetrocede. (references)
Etymologies containing "cede": Abscess, AntecedeCession, Cessionary. (references)

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Historic Usage: Cede

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Germany shall in the same way cede material of all kinds necessary to the Allied and Associated Powers concerned for the utilisation of those river systems. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cede

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Georgia

Channel 25 is the only independent television station broadcasting in the autonomous region of Ajara; however, three of the four owners of the station alleged that they were coerced in February 2000 by Ajaran regional government officials and Mikhail Gagoshidze, chairman of Ajaran Television and Radio, to cede 75 percent of the company's shares to Gagoshidze. (references)

Economic History

Denmark

After the war with Prussia and Austria in 1864, Denmark was forced to cede Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia and adopt a policy of neutrality. (references)

Slovakia

In 1938, the Allies concluded the Munich agreement which forced Czechoslovakia to cede the predominantly German region known as Sudetenland to Germany. (references)

Human Rights

Liberia

There were no further developments in the prosecution of eight former civil war combatants who were arrested after the November 2000 ransacking of the offices of the Center for Democratic Empowerment (CEDE) and the beating of former interim president and human rights defender Amos Sawyer and the organization's executive director, Conmany Wesseh. (references)

Political Economy

Burma

Since it seized power in 1988, the junta has shown no inclination to cede its hold on power. (references)

PHILIPPINES

Insurance and professional reinsurance companies operating in the country are required by law to cede to the industry-owned National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines at least 10 percent of outward reinsurance placements. (references)

Political Rights

Indonesia

The MPR was to decide its precise future role and transitional arrangements through further constitutional changes to be considered in 2002. The legislative branch has demonstrated its independence through the DPR's aggressive pursuit of its government oversight function, as well as the MPR's success in first forcing President Wahid to cede more authority over daily government management to Vice President Megawati because of perceived inefficiency and inconsistency in the Wahid Administration's implementation of policy. (references)

Women

Lebanon

Women may own property but often cede control of it to male relatives for cultural reasons and because of family pressure. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cede

"Cede" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Cede" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)88.24%4550,900
Lexical Verb (base form)11.76%6143,867
                    Total100.00%51N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cede

Expression using "cede": cede to. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cede

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  cede

66

  cede co

10

  cede jewelry

8

  cede company

4

  cede photoservices

2

  cede bird food

2

  bird cede product

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cede

Language Translations for "cede"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

afstaan (give, give in, give up, give way, relinquish, yield), afstand doen van (give, give in, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

lëshoj (concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter), heq dorë (abdicate, chuck, depart, drop it, give oneself up to, give up, kick, let up, release, remise, resign, tek pupa), dorëzoj (consign, deliver, devolve, disgorge, get through, give, give back, give over, give up, hand in, present, reach, serve, turn over, yield). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تنازل (abdicate, back down, concede, concession, condescend, deign, demission, disclaimer, give ground, give in, give up, part with, pass up, recede, recession, relinquish, renounce, renunciation, resignation, stand down, step down, surrender, transfer, waive, waiver, yield), ‏تخلى (abandon, assign, cast aside, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, go back on, hand over, leave, let down, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отказвам се (backtrack, draw back, forego, forgo, forsake, pack up, release, resign). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

割让 (Ceded, Ceding, Cession). (various references)

   

Czech

  

odstoupit (abdicate, back down, resign, stand back, step aside). (various references)

   

Danish

  

give efter (give in, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

toegeven (accede, acknowledge, acknowledgement, add, admission, admit, agree, concede, confess, consent, give in, give up, give way, grant, profess, relinquish, yield), het veld ruimen (give in, give up, give way, relinquish, yield), afstaan (abandonment, give in, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

cedi (give in, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

lata sær lynda (abandon, give in, give up, give way, relinquish, renounce, resign, yield), eftirlíka (give in, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

واگذارکردن (Abandon, Abdicate, Admit, Assign, Concede, Entrust, Give, Relegate, Remise, Surrender, Title, Transfer, Vest, Yield), تسلیم کردن (Consign, Lodge), صرفنظرکردن از. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

väistyä (give in, give up, give way, recede, relinquish, step aside, withdraw, yield). (various references)

   

French

  

céder, abandonner. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ôfstean (give in, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

   

German

  

abtreten (abdicate, assign, dismiss, give in, give up, give way, go off, grant, hand over, make smb.'s exit, relinquish, resign, stamp off, step down, to cede, transfer, wear, wear down, wear out, yield, yield up), zedieren (assign, grant). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παραχωρώ (allot, allow, bestow, concede, grant, resign, vouchsafe, yield), εκχωρώ (assign, convey), ενδίδω (give in, yield, yield to). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לותר (concede, forgo, give ground, give in, give up, pass up, relinquish, renounce, resign, surrender, throw up). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felad (abandon, abdicate, give in, give out, give up, mail, pass up, propound, renounce, to abandon, to abdicate, to cede, to chuck up, to despatch, to get off, to give up, to relinquish, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to throw up, waive), enged (allow, gave, give in, give up, give way, given, had, let, relent, relinquish, to allow of, to comply with, to give, to give it best, to give the green light, to give way to, to have, to knuckle down, to lower one's flag, to relent, to slacken, to strike one's flag, to submit, to uncoop, yield), átenged (concede, to assign, to cede, to concede, to give up, to let through, to transfer, to yield). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

memberikan (give, hand over, supply). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cedere (abandon, alienate, assign, crack, devote, give, give in, give up, give way, grant, hand over, knuckle, relent, relinquish, render, sag, sell, submit, succumb, surrender, transfer, yield). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

譲り渡す (to cede, to hand over, to turn over). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さく (a harvest, a work, cord, crossout, curtail, fence, last, paling, pare, plan, plane, policy, reduce, rope, scrape off, sharpen, shave, to alienate, to avoid, to bloom, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare, to split, to tear, whittle, yesterday), りょうど'さく (to cede a territory), ゆずりわたす (to cede, to hand over, to turn over). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhiggey voish (abdicate, abdication, forgo). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edecay

   

Portuguese

  

ceder (abandon, assign, break, bring to one's knees, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, folder, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knucklebone, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ceda (assign, bend, cave in, come to terms, comply, concede, convey, defer, deliver over, deliver up, demise, give, give way, go, knock under, knuckle under, lower one's colour, release, renounce, resign, slack, spare, submit, surrender, yield), transfera (assign, deliver, displace, relegate, remise, shift, sign off, transfer), îndupleca (cause, determine, limber, melt, reason, relent, yield). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уступать (acquiesce, assent, be inferior to, comply, concede, fall back, give ground, give in, give way to, knuckle under, pass up, rebate, relinquish, remise, stand down, succumb, surrender, yield, yield to). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ustupiti (concede, give place to), priznati (accord, acknowledge, admit, avow, cognize, confess, disbosom, grant, own up, recognize), popustiti (defer, ease up, give in, give way to, let up, relax, relent, remit, slack, slacken, unbrace). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ceder (acquiesce, alienate, assign, budge, cold flow, concede, creep, dispose of, give, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, make over, part with, relent, relinquish, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, turn over, waive, yield), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give in, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avstå (abstain, desist, give up, refrain, relinquish, resign). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ยกให้. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, dispense with, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), teslim etmek (commit, confide, consign, deliver, deliver up, give in, give up, hand in, hand over, own, resign, submit, surrender, turn in, turn over, yield up), teslím etmek (give in, give up, give way, relinquish, yield), terketmek (desert, desolate, discard, disuse, ditch, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), devretmek (alienate, assign, circuit, circulate, convey, deliver, devolve, dispose of, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, pass on, revolve, slew, slue, transfer, turn over). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

уступати (assent), віддавати (bestow, give away, give back, yield), визнавати правоту, здавати (check, render up, surrender, yield), поступатися (admit, attribute, comply, concede, give ground, give in, knuckle down, knuckle under, listen, relinquish, retreat, surrender, yield). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cede

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cedere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cede

Derivations

Words beginning with "cede": ceded, ceder, ceders, cedes. (additional references)

Words ending with "cede": accede, antecede, concede, intercede, precede, reaccede, recede, retrocede, secede, supercede. (additional references)

Words containing "cede": acceded, acceder, acceders, accedes, anteceded, antecedence, antecedences, antecedent, antecedently, antecedents, antecedes, conceded, concededly, conceder, conceders, concedes, decedent, decedents, interceded, interceder, interceders, intercedes, preceded, precedence, precedences, precedencies, precedency, precedent, precedents, precedes, reacceded, reaccedes, receded, recedes, retroceded, retrocedes, seceded, seceder, seceders, secedes, succedent, superceded, supercedes, unprecedented, unprecedentedly. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cede" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cada, cadea, cadec, cadeo, Cadex, cado, caedo, Cbde, ccd, cdd, cde, Cdes, Cdev, Ceadel, cebe, Cece, ced, ceda, cedae, cedav, cedax, ceder, cedere, cedex, Cedf, cedfe, cedi, cedit, cedm, Cedre, cee, Ceea, ceed, ceede, cege, cehe, cele, ceme, cendi, cene, Ceoe, cepe, Cerddi, cese, ceti, ceve, cewe, cexe, ceye, Ceze, cheade, Cheddi, Chedi, cida, cide, Cidg, Cidi, cidip, Cidse, cied, clede, cledo, codek, codeu, Crda, crede, Credem, csd, Csee, cudo, cuide, cyd, ecd, ede, Gedde, Kaydee, keda, kede, kedi, pede, zede. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cede"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "cede" (pronounced sē"d)
3s ē" daccede, concede, exceed, intercede, precede, proceed, recede, reseed, secede, seed, succeed, supersede.
2-ē" dagreed, bead, bleed, Brede, breed, creed, decreed, deed, degreed, disagreed, feed, freed, greed, guaranteed, heed, impede, indeed, keyed, knead, kneed, lipide, mead, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, overfeed, peed, plead, Reed, reread, screed, skied, speed, stampede, Steed, swede, teed, Tweed, weed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Cede

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e"

-1 letter: cee, dee.

-2 letters: de, ed.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e"
 

+1 letter: ceded, ceder, cedes, cered, creed, deice, deuce, eched, educe.

 

+2 letters: accede, becked, bedeck, ceased, ceders, ceiled, celled, censed, cessed, cheder, chewed, cleped, clewed, cooeed, creeds, creped, crewed, decade, decane, decare, deceit, decent, decern, decide, decile, decked, deckel, decker, deckle, decode, decree, deduce, deface, defect, deiced, deicer, deices, deject, detect, deuced, deuces, device, echoed, edenic, educed, educes, emceed, encode, etched, exceed, excide, fenced, gecked, kecked, leched, necked, peaced, peched, pecked, pieced, recede, recked, recode, reduce, screed, secede, seduce, teched.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cede


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 65 64 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100101 01100100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0065 0064 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37717071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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