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Definition: Sold |
SoldAdjective1. Disposed of to a purchaser; "this merchandise is sold". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sold" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you have sold anything, denotes that unfavorable business will worry you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Slavery is involuntary servitude enforced by violence. It predates every institution of ownership and authority, and its definition has changed over time to reflect those institutions in every society. It is sometimes an expectation associated with other relationships, such as marriage and other family relations, military service, or debt relationships. See debt slavery.
The article on abolitionism deals in detail with the 19th century advocacy to abolish formal slavery, in first Britain and the British Empire and later the United States.
Definition
The 1926 Slavery Convention describes slavery as "...the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised..."
The modern conception of slavery is simply that of an individual whose movements (and usually most of their activities) are under the total control of another. The slave is the one who cannot leave without explicit permission, and who will be returned to the 'owner' or 'master' or overseer or controller if they stray or escape. Typically this is today accomplished through tacit arrangements with local police and other authorities - by masters with some hold over them, or status as landowners or other wealth.
Slavery is in all countries considered to be a criminal activity, outlawed by UN conventions. However some states such as Burma and Sudan do facilitate the institution of slavery, according to anti-slavery groups such as Free the Slaves.
In the most common conception of slavery, one person is treated as the chattel property of another person, providing slave labour from birth to death. This is not the most common relation in modern slavery. Capture of modern slaves is normally accomplished by deception or fraud - usually of the young, who are taken from family by slavers who offer them money and some promise or story that this represents advances on wages in some respectable job, or, simply kidnap the children. The slaves are usually not worked to death, but at some point usually escape or are released, often because they are of no further use. For instance, in Thailand, slave prostitutes are thrown onto the street as soon as they test positive for HIV - usually about three years after they are bought at the age of 13 or 14. Thus modern slaves are often called disposable people (see also economics of slavery section below).
It is quite common for a slave to be told that they are working off a debt, but to have no access to an accounting for that debt, and no right to take any lower-paying or less supervised employment. These people may be considered slaves if they are under the impression that challenging these conditions, or leaving in protest of them, would lead to serious bodily harm.
Who becomes a slave
Historically, slaves were often those of a different ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race (Animal rights and Great Ape personhood advocates would also include species) from those who enslaved them, but in general such slaveries were short. It has been relatively rare in history for an entire ethnic group to be held as slaves for more than a couple of generations. In most such cases intermarriage, granting of liberty, right to buy one's own freedom, have caused slave and slave-owning populations to merge.
Societies characterized by poverty, population pressures, and cultural and technological backwardness are frequently exporters of slaves to more developed nations. Today most slaves are rural people forced to move to cities, or purchased in rural areas and sold into slavery in cities. These moves take place due to loss of subsistence agriculture, thefts of land, and population increases.
Slavery is almost always a matter of economics - in effect, those with poor birthright or bad luck in any society have sometimes been forced to thrown themselves on the mercy of those with better birthright and luck, or simply been forced to provide service to those who had power and were willing to use it to subordinate others.
Historical examples include the Slavs and various African societies, such as the Ibo of Nigeria (see below for deatils). These were sometimes what we would today consider prisoners of war.
Individuals could also find themselves condemned to slavery as a result of being convicted of crimes.
Origin of the term
For centuries, the Slavic people of Eastern Europe were the primary source of slaves for Europe and the Near East. Because of this, the word for slave in numerous European languages is derived from the word for Slavs—the English word being a clear example.
History of Slavery
Slavery in the Mediterranean World
Slavery in the ancient Mediterranean cultures was a mixture of debt-slavery and the enslavement of prisoners of war. Undoubtedly a majority of slaves were condemned to agricultural labor and lived hard lives.
Slavery in the Bible
See Sabbatical year, Onesimus in addition to the details of the Book of Exodus.
Slavery in Rome and Greece
Greek and Roman urban slaves, as opposed to agricultural slaves, seem to have had some chance at manumission. In Rome, slaves were organised as a social class, and some authors found in their condition the earliest concept of proletariat, given that the only property they were allowed to own was the gift of reproduction. Slaves lived then within this class with very little hope of a better life, and they were owned and exchanged, just like goods, by free men. They had a price as "human instruments"; their life had not, and their patron could freely even kill them. There was however a sort of class of freedmen and freedwomen, called liberati, in Roman society at all periods. These people were not numerous, but Rome needed to demonstrate at times the great frank spirit of this "civitas", so the freed slaves were made famous, as hopeful examples. Freed people suffered some minor legal disabilities that show in fact how otherwise open the society was to them—they could not hold certain high offices and they could not marry into the senatorial classes. Their children, however, had no prohibitions.
Much of the wealth of classical Athens came from its silver mines, which were worked by slave labor under extremely inhumane conditions.
Most of the gladiators were often slaves. One of them, Spartacus, formed an army of slaves that battled the Roman armies in the Servile War for several years.
The Latin poet Horace, son of a freedman, served as a military officer in the army of Brutus and seemed headed for a political career before the defeat of Brutus by Octavian and Antony. Though Horace may have been an exceptional case, freedmen were an important part of Roman administrative functions. Freedmen of the Imperial families often were the main functionaries in the Imperial administration.
The beginnings of Christianity did not seriously change slavery. Though the Christian leaders often called for good treatment for slaves and condemned the enslavement of Christians, the institution itself was not questioned. The shift from chattel slavery to serfdom in medieval Europe is otherwise an economic rather than a moral issue.
Slavery in the Islamic World
The institution of slavery pre-existed Islam in the Arab world, and was permitted under the laws of Islam. Manumission was encouraged, though not required; however, it was forbidden to free slaves against their will, to prevent them being turned out to starve in hard times or when they were sick or old. Usually, only prisoners of war or the children of slaves could be slaves; however, there were exceptions from time to time, one of the most notable being the practice of devsirme, by which people were accepted as payment of taxes. As there was usually an exploitable peasant population to perform agricultural work, the demand for slaves usually was more for specialised forms of service—eunuchs, artisans, concubines, janissaries etc. This often led wealthy people to have their children trained in valuable skills like carpet making or gardening, in case ill fortune ever made them captives; without that value of their own, if they could not be ransomed they would simply have been killed. In Al-Andalus, Slavic slaves (saqaliba) were trained in the public administration. Some of them even ruled the taifa of Denia.
Race had no impact on slavery in Arabia under Islam. Islam as a political movement was often a liberating force for those held in racial slavery. However, like other ancient cultures, Islamic rulers made a custom of enslaving those defeated in war. Mere conversion to Islam did not automatically result in manumission, either. As those peoples—notably the Turks—became Muslims, their use as slaves did not end immediately. The Islamic world bought and captured slaves from Europe and Africa on a large scale for roughly a thousand years.
Slavery in Medieval Europe
The institution of serfdom in medieval Europe was weaker than chattel slavery; serfs were obligated to serve or work the land for their master, but were not chattel property. Serfdom persisted in Eastern Europe until the mid-19th century, when Russian czar Alexander II emancipated the serfs in 1861. See also feudalism and guild.
Slavery in Africa
Slavery was common and widespread throughout Africa into the 19th century. The Dutch imported slaves from Asia into their colony in South Africa. Britain, which held vast colonial territories on the continent (including South Africa), made the practice of slavery illegal in these regions. Ironically, the end of the slave trade and the decline of slavery was imposed upon Africa by its European conquerors. This action is what today may be called an instance of cultural imperialism, albeit being one of the less mal-intentioned manifestations of the phenomenon.
The nature of the slave societies differed greatly across the continent. There were large plantations worked by slaves in Egypt, the Sudan, and Zanzibar, but this was not a typical use of slaves in Africa as a whole. In some slave societies, slaves were protected and almost incorporated into the slaveowning family. In others, slaves were brutally abused, and even used for human sacrifices. Despite the vast numbers of slaves exported from Africa, it is thought that the majority of African slaves remained in Africa, continuing as slaves in the regions where they were first captured.
Prior to the 16th century, the bulk of slaves exported from Africa were shipped from East Africa to the Arabian peninsula. Zanzibar became a leading port based on this trade. Arab slave traders differed from European traders in that they would often capture slaves themselves, sometimes penetrating deep into the continent. They also differed in that their market greatly preferred the purchase of female slaves over male slaves. This reflected their desire for household and sexual slaves rather than slaves to work on plantations.
The African slave trade peaked in the late 18th century, when the largest number of slaves were captured in West Africa and shipped to the colonies of the New World (triangular trade). As a result of the Spanish War of Succession, Britain obtained the monopoly (asiento de negros) of transporting African Negroes to Spanish America. It is estimated that over the centuries, twelve to thirteen million people were shipped as slaves from Africa, of whom some 15 percent died during the terrible voyage. The great majority were shipped to the Americas, but some also went to Europe and the south of Africa. While much of the slave trade in Africa was related to external protagonists, an internal slave trade unrelated to non-Africans did exist.
The demographic impact of the slave trade on Africa is an important question, regarding which consensus remains elusive. Some historians conclude that the total loss—persons removed, those who died on the arduous march to coastal slave marts and those killed in slave raids—far exceeded the 65-75 million inhabitants remaining in Sub-Saharan Africa at the trade's end. Others believe that slavers had a vested interest in capturing rather than killing, and in keeping their captives alive; and that this coupled with the disproportionate removal of males and the introduction of new crops from the Americas (cassava, maize) would have limited general population decline to particular regions at particular times—western Africa around 1760-1810 and Mozambique and neighbouring areas half a century later. There has also been speculation that within Africa female captives were taken in preference, for domestic and dynastic reasons, with many male captives being a "bycatch" who would have been killed if there had not been an export market for them. So the balance and timing of the two demographic sorts of market could make a difference.
Slavery persists in Africa above all other continents. Mauritania abolished slavery only in 1981, but several human rights organizations are reporting that the practice continues there. The trading of children has been reported in modern Nigeria and Benin. In parts of Ghana, a family may be punished for an offense by having to turn over a virgin female to serve as a sex slave within the offended family. In the Sudan slavery continues as part of an ongoing civil war.
Slavery in Colonial America
Slavery in the Americas during the 17th century was an institution that made little distinction as to the race of the slave or the free man. But by the 18th century, the overwhelming number of black slaves was such that white and Native American slavery was less common. Slavery under European rule began with importation of white European slaves (or indentured servants), was followed by the enslavement of local aborigines in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade as the native populations declined through disease. Most slaves brought to the Americas ended up in the Caribbean or South America where tropical diseases took a large toll on their population and required large numbers of replacements.
Slavery among indigenous people of the Americas
In Pre-Columbian MesoAmerica the most common forms of slavery were those of prisoners-of-war and debtors. People unable to pay back a debt could be sentenced to work as a slave to the person owed until the debt was worked off. Slavery was not usually hereditary; children of slaves were born free. In the Incan Empire, commoners were subject to a tax, the mita, that they paid working on public infrastructure.
Slavery in the Spanish New World Colonies
Slavery in the Spanish colonies began with local Native Americans. Initially, the Spanish maintained the mita directing it to silver mining at Potosí. However, as these populations shrank due to imported European diseases, African slaves began to be imported.
Slavery in Brazil
During the colonial epoch, slavery was a mainstay of the Brazilian economy, especially in mining and sugar cane production. Because of the low cost of slave-produced Brazilian sugar, British colonies in the West Indies were unable to match the market prices of Brazilian sugar. This led to intensive pressure from the British government for Brazil to end this practice. Slavery was legally ended by the "Lei Áurea" (Golden Law) of 1888.
In the early 1990s evidence of illegal "forced labor and debt bondage" amounting to slavery was unearthed in the Amazon region. The Brazilian government has since taken measures against such activities, although concerns continue to be expressed that more stringent steps may be required. In 1995, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso announced a new series of measures to force compliance with the anti-slavery statues.
In September of 2002, a report to the Ministério de Trabalho (Ministry of Labor), stated that between 1995 and 2001 approximately 3,500 slave labourers had been freed, and that it was estimated that 2,500 people remained in such conditions at that time. (See [1], Source: "O Globo" Online ("País tem 2,5 mil trabalhadores escravos"-"Country has 2.5 thousand slave workers"))
Slavery in North America
The first slaves brought to the English colonies on the continent were landed at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Slavery in the United States ended irregularly. Slavery was legal in most of the 13 colonies, and was ended in many of the states later called "Free States" only after the turn of the 19th century. For instance, slavery was not abolished in New York state until 1827, and even then only absolutely abolished for those born before 1799. Those born between 1799 and the passage of the law were under conditional slavery.
In 1806 the United States passed legislation that banned the importation of slaves, but not the internal slave trade, and the involvement in the international slave trade or the outfitting of ships for that trade by U.S. citizens. Though there were certainly violations of this law, slavery in America became more or less self-sustaining. Several slave rebellions took place during the 1700s and 1800s including the Nat Turner rebellion in 1831. The importation of slaves into the United States was banned on January 1, 1808.
Influential leaders of the abolition movement (1820-60) include:
The 1860s saw the end of slavery in America. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 was a symbolic gesture that ended slavery nowhere, but only proclaimed freedom for slaves within the Confederacy. However, the proclamation made the abolition of slavery an official war goal and it was implemented as the Union retook territory from the Confederacy. Slaves within the United States remained enslaved until the final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December of 1865, 8 months after the cessation of hostilities in the Civil War.
- William Lloyd Garrison -- Published The Liberator newspaper
- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Frederick Douglass -- Nation's most powerful anti-slavery speaker, a former slave
- Harriet Tubman -- Helped 350 slaves escape from the South, became known as a "conductor" on the "Underground Railroad".
In the slave-holding colonies of British North America slavery was first abolished in Upper Canada (now the southern part of Ontario; slavery was officially abolished there in 1810, although slavery had probably disappeared before then (see John Graves Simcoe). Slavery had not been an important part of the Upper Canadian economy; most slaves were servants. In the decades before the American Civil War and especially after the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law, Canada became the destination of choice of runaway slaves to escape to freedom.
International Abolitionist Movements
Slavery's origins are simply too old to recount. So, too, are movements to free large or distinct groups of them. Moses led Israelite slaves from ancient Egypt in the Biblical Book of Exodus - possibly the first detailed account of a movement to free slaves, although clearly not accepted at face value as real history in all particulars.
In England in 1772 the case of a runaway slave named James Somerset came before the Lord Chief Justice Lord Mansfield. Basing his judgement on Magna Carta and habeas corpus he declared - "Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged.". It was thus declared that the condition of slavery could not be enforced under English law. However, little effort was made towards enforcing the judgement, and slaves continued to be held in Britain for years to come.
In 1787 humanitarian campaigners in Britain founded the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The "slave trade" consisted, not of slavery in Britain, but rather of trafficking in slaves by British merchants operating in British colonies and other countries. Shares of stock in companies engaged in that trade was legally bought and sold in England. The anti-slave-trade movement in Britain had support from Quakers, Baptists, Methodists and others, and reached out for support from the new industrial workers. The primary leader of the fight against slavery in Britain was William Wilberforce.
France never authorized slavery on its mainland, but authorized it in some of its overseas possessions. On February 4, 1794, Abbé Grégoire and the Convention abolished slavery. It was re-established in 1802 by Napoleon, and in the end abolished in 1848 under the Second Republic.
The "Abolition of the Slave Trade Act" was passed by Parliament on March 25, 1807. The act imposed a fine of -L-100 for every slave found aboard a British ship. The intention was to entirely outlaw the slave trade within the British Empire, but the trade continued and captains in danger of being caught by the Royal Navy would often throw slaves into the sea to reduce the fine. In 1827 Britain declared that particiption in the slave trade was piracy and punishable by death. On August 1, 1834 all slaves in the British Empire were emancipated, but still indentured to their former owners in an apprenticeship system which was finally abolished in 1838. After 1838, the 'British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society' worked to outlaw slavery overseas and to pressure the government to help enforce the suppression of the slave trade by declaring slave traders pirates and pursuing them. This organization continues today as Anti-Slavery International.
Sierra Leone was established as a country for former slaves of the British Empire back in Africa. Liberia served an analogous purpose for American slaves. The goal of the abolitionists was repatriation of the slaves to Africa. Trade unions as well didn't want the cheap labor of former slaves around. Nevertheless, most of them stayed in America.
Slaves in the United States who escaped ownership would often make their way north to Canada via the "Underground Railroad". The Underground Railroad was a grassroots organization, loosely and informally organized.
The 1926 Slavery Convention, an initiative of the League of Nations, was a turning point in banning global slavery.
Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the UN General Assembly, explicity banned slavery.
The United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery was convened to outlaw and ban slavery worldwide, including child slavery.
In December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which was developed from the Universal Declaraction of Human Rights. Article 8 of this international treaty bans slavery. The treaty came into force in March 1976 after it had been ratified by 35 nations. As of November 2003, 104 nations had ratified the treaty.
Apologies
In June 1997, Tony Hall, a Democratic representative for Dayton, Ohio proposed a national apology by the U.S. government for slavery. This was at a time when the Catholic Church in France apologised for its silence and begged "forgiveness for Catholic inaction as regime sent Jews to their deaths in '40s".
At the World Conference Against Racism, Durban, the US representatives walked out on September 3 2001 on the instructions of Colin Powell. His statement only concerns the conference discussion of Israel who also walked out. However the South African Government spokesperson said "The general perception among all delegates is that the US does not want to confront the real issues of slavery and all its manifestations."
At the same time the British, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese delegations blocked an EU apology for slavery.
The issue of an apology is linked to reparations for slavery and is still being pursued across the world. E.g. The Jamaican Reparations Movement approved its declaration and action Plan.
Economics of slavery
According to the British Anti-Slavery Society, "Although there is no longer any state which recognizes any claim by a person to a right of property over another, there are an estimated 2.7 million people throughout the world mainly children in conditions of slavery." They further note that slavery, particularly child slavery, was on the rise in 2003. According to a broader definition used by Free The Slaves, another advocacy group, there are 27 million people in slavery today, spread all over the world. This is, also according to that group:
As a result, the economics of slavery is stark: the yield of profit per year for those buying and controlling a slave is over 800% on average, as opposed to the 5% per year that would have been the expected payback for buying a slave in colonial times. This combines with the high potential to lose a slave (have them stolen, escape, or freed by unfriendly authorities) to yield what are called disposable people - those who can be exploited intensely for a short time and then discarded, such as the prostitutes thrown out on city streets to die once they contract HIV, or those forced to work in mines.
- The largest number of people that has ever been in slavery at any point in world history
- The smallest percentage of the total human population that has ever been enslaved at once
- Reducing the price of slaves to as low as US$40 in Mali for young adult male labourers, to a high of US$1000 or so in Thailand for HIV-free young females suitable for use in brothels (where they invariably contract HIV). This represents the price paid to the person, or parents
- This represents the lowest price that there has ever been for a slave in raw labour terms - while the price of a comparable male slave in 1850 America would have been about US$1000 in the currency of the time, that represents US$38,000 in today's dollars, thus slaves are about a thousand times cheaper, at least in that category.
Reparations
As noted above, there have been movements to achieve reparations for those held in involuntary servitude, or sometimes their descendants. There is a growing modern movement to donate funds achieved in reparations efforts not to the descendants of those held as slaves in prior generations, but instead to donate them to those freed from slavery in this generation, in other countries and circumstances.
In general, reparation for being held in slavery is handled as a civil law matter in almost every country. This is often decried as a serious problem, since slaves are exactly those people who have no access to the legal process. Systems of fines and reparations paid from fines collected by authorities, rather than in civil courts, have been proposed to alleviate this in some nations.
Potential for total abolition
Those 27 million people produce a gross economic product of US$1.4 billion dollars. This is also a smaller percentage of the world economy than slavery has produced at any prior point in human history. That, plus the universal criminal status of slavery, the lack of moral arguments for it in modern discourse, and the many conventions and agreements to abolish it worldwide, make it likely that it can be eliminated in this generation, according to Free The Slaves. There are no nations whose economy would be substantially affected by the true abolition of slavery.
A first step towards this objective is the Cocoa Protocol, by which the entire cocoa industry worldwide has accepted full moral and legal responsibility for the entire comprehensive outcome of their production processes. Negotiations for this protocol was initiated for cotton, sugar and other commodity items in the 19th century - taking about140 years to complete! Thus it seems also that this is a unique turning point in history, where slowly all commodity markets can lever licensing and other requirements to ensure that slavery is eliminated from production, one industry at a time, as a sectoral simultaneous policy that does not cause disadvantages for any one market player.
Generally, consumer moral purchasing efforts are ineffective against slavery since such slave production as charcoal to produce rolled steel in Brazil, or on coffee or sugar plantations, is so far down the production chain that final packaged product producers simply do not know how products are produced.
See also Slave trade, Slave narrative, Wage slavery, Sexual slavery, debt bondage, forced labor, coolie.
External links
- Anti-Slavery International
- American Anti-Slavery Group
- African Reparations
- Free The Slaves
- Amnesty International
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slavery."
| Antonym: unsold (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Rou_, rake; Sadist; skeesicks, skeezix; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog; rounder; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sold |
| Specialty definitions using "sold": Bought and Sold. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sold": steelyard. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sold" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (pay), Romanian (balance, bargain sale), Swedish (pay, salary, wage, wages). |
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Screenplays | Somebody who sold you to Humble Pie for fifty bucks and a case of beer (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Tyler sold his soap to department stores at $20 a bar. Lord knows what they charged (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) You sold our dead parakeet to a blind kid (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Bennett Yellin) All I'm saying is that you could have robbed banks, sold dope or stole your grandmother's pension checks and none of us would have minded (The Longest Yard; writing credit: Albert S. Ruddy; Tracy Keenan Wynn) Sold tickets (Top Hat; writing credit: Allan Scott; Dwight Taylor) | |
Lyrics | I hung around with tha thug's and even though they sold drugs (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) I sold eveything else til there was just nothing left (Hit 'em up Style (Oops!); performing artist: Blu Cantrell) 'cause your greed sold me out in shame, mmhmm (Fighter; performing artist: CHRISTINA AGUILERA) I been told he can't be sold (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite) What you think I sold 'em all (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) | |
Clever | Some Pieces of Rock Hudson Sold at Auction (references; author: unknown) Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! (1994) Sold On Manhattan (1963) Hell Is Sold Out (1951) Now It Can Be Sold (1939) Sold at Auction (1931) | |
Song Titles | I SOLD MY HEART TO THE JUNKMAN (performing artist: Patti LaBelle ) I Sold My Heart to The Junkman (performing artist: The Blue-Belles (Starlets)) | |
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 | The Snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, is easily confused with the alligator snapping turtle. Considered ill-tempered, they feed on invertebrates, fish, reptiles, carrion, etc. and a surprising amount of vegetation. These turtles trapped in the fresh and brackish waters of bay tributaries and sold to restaurants for use in soups and stews. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Newfoundland fishermen catching squid for sale as cod bait Sold to United States vessels Drawing by H. W. Elliott and Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Figure 65. Marconi electrolytic sounder - a Langevin-Touly electric recording sounder marketed by the Marconi Sounding Device Co. Ltd. which sold these instruments in Great Britain. The Langevin-Touly instrument was first marketed in 1935. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 39. A rain gage - this model was sold by the firm of Jules Richard and appeared in his catalog in 1886. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Landowner, Fred Pyler, NRCS Conservation Technician, and Trinette Bell (right), NRCS Soil Conservationist, review wheat straw operation. The straw will be used for his own cattle, mixed with feed, used for mulching, and some will be sold. [Slide 97CS3129. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | ChuYang, NRCS, Soil Conservationist and Tou Xiong, Fresno State University graduate student and chairman of 1.5 acres donated by Fresno State University, Fresno, California to a group of Hmoung farmers. The farmers are growing Asian vegeatbles to be sold at local farmers markets. Credit: USDA. |
 | Donna Tucks reaches for a tag to identify a bale of tobacco that has been sold at auction in the S. Boston, VA. Credit: USDA. |  | Caption: Edison Cylinder Records Being Sold from Horse and Wagon, {By an Assistant to August Sturm, Part-time Vendor of Cylinders and Phonographs?}; 1906; {29.200/15} (jpg). |
 | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 57, Paris, France. : Garbage is kept in cans and sold to a farmer, the proceeds are given to the mess fund. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The Cockpit, Battle of the Nile. / Heath Del. Published and sold...by Edwa. Orme. M. Dubourg Sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "'Witches' stall" by L L Commentary: "This stall sold dried llama foetuses amongst other things. La Paz, Bolivia." | "Red-eared slider" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Trachemys scripta elegans Sliders, especially the red-eared, have been heavily collected for the pet trade and are sold by the millions in pet shops across the world. Because of unsanitary conditions and a lack of knowledge on turtle care, few survive fo" |
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Charles Caleb Colton | Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried. |
George Herbert | Ill ware is never cheap. Pleasing ware is half sold. |
Henry David Thoreau | The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue. |
John Ruskin | Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. |
Marston | Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, shall find such faith so bought, so sold. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | The guardian of the land of an heir who is thus under age, shall take from the land of the heir nothing but reasonable produce, reasonable customs, and reasonable services, and that without destruction or waste of men or goods; and if we have committed the wardship of the lands of any such minor to the sheriff, or to any other who is responsible to us for its issues, and he has made destruction or waster of what he holds in wardship, we will take of him amends, and the land shall be committed to two lawful and discreet men of that fee, who shall be responsible for the issues to us or to him to whom we shall assign them; and if we have given or sold the wardship of any such land to anyone and he has therein made destruction or waste, he shall lose that wardship, and it shall be transferred to two lawful and discreet men of that fief, who shall be responsible to us in like manner as aforesaid. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | I confess, we find among the Jews, as well as other nations, that men did sell themselves; but, it is plain, this was only to drudgery, not to slavery: for, it is evident, the person sold was not under an absolute, arbitrary, despotical power: for the master could not have power to kill him, at any time, whom, at a certain time, he was obliged to let go free out of his service; and the master of such a servant was so far from having an arbitrary power over his life, that he could not, at pleasure, so much as maim him, but the loss of an eye, or tooth, set him free, Exod. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | They may not be sold or disposed of to foreign countries. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had sold an old horse, to procure food |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | On the evening of the day on which the property was sold Stephen followed his father meekly about the city from bar to bar. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Sure, we sold it. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I speak of fishing only now, for I had long felt differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I went to the woods |
The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These mixtures are often sold as powders. (references) | |
Do not eat or drink anything sold by street vendors. (references) | ||
All drugs--even those sold over the counter--have side effects. (references) | ||
Business | Electricity is sold via a spot market. (references) | |
The chrome is treated and sold for reuse. (references) | ||
The resulting granules are sold to Germany and Holland. (references) | ||
Children | China | Girls and women are trafficked and sold as brides. (references) |
Indonesia | The babies allegedly were bought from low-income families and were sold to wealthy infertile couples. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Morocco | Nevertheless, Arabic Bibles reportedly have been sold in local bookstores. (references) |
Economic History | Mauritius | U.S. brands are sold widely. (references) |
Cape Verde | They were both sold to foreign companies. (references) | |
Argentina | They also can be readily bought and sold. (references) | |
Human Rights | Comoros | Alcohol can be imported and sold with a permit from the Government. (references) |
China | In recent years, credible reports have alleged that organs from some executed prisoners were removed and sold. (references) | |
Georgia | Saakashvili implemented a program in which scrap metal from prison facilities was sold to finance construction of this facility. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Peru | Both AIDESEP and CONAP are critical of the 1995 land law, which permits Amazonian land to be bought and sold if no one is living on it or otherwise making use of it. Sendero Luminoso continued to be a leading violator of the rights of indigenous people. (references) |
Minorities | Latvia | Labels and user instructions for goods sold must be in Latvian, although other languages can be present as well. (references) |
Lebanon | Throughout the fall of 1999, approximately six random bombings were carried out against Orthodox churches and shops that sold liquor; the bombings took place in the northern city of Tripoli and in surrounding areas. (references) | |
Political Economy | HAITI | Most manufactured goods sold here are imported. (references) |
JAMAICA | Items sold in Jamaica must conform to recognized international quality specifications. (references) | |
SINGAPORE | Apart from residential properties sold within three years, there is no tax on capital gains. (references) | |
Trade | Denmark | Products can not be sold with a standard U.S. label only. (references) |
Kenya | Seed certification is mandatory before it can be sold locally. (references) | |
Portugal | Imports from EU countries only pay the IVA when a product is sold. (references) | |
Travel | Japan | These goods cannot be sold. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Beer, soft drinks and hard alcohol are widely sold. (references) | |
Bahrain | Certain pharmaceutical products may be unavailable, or sold under a European name. (references) | |
Worker Rights | India | Persons sometimes are sold into virtual slavery. (references) |
India | The children had been sold to private slave traders. (references) | |
Mexico | The owners sold or traded the children among themselves. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dominick Dunne | In Monaco, in a penthouse in Monte Carlo over the bank that Mr. Safra had owned and had just sold just before his death. And it's a fascinating case. The American nurse has now been in the Monaco prison for about two and a half years. |
Joe Viterelli | Oh, well, I had a couple of beer joints that I sold in New York and I came out here and I was looking around. |
Lawrence Lindsey | Well, I sold my stock in part because I have three kids, and at that point I had an ailing mother-in-law who had just moved in with us. I couldn't afford to have money anywhere but where it was safe. I couldn't take any chances. |
Marla Hanson | I became so depressed that I sold everything that I owned. I moved into the Chelsea Hotel, where I literally just wanted to die. I mean, I didn't want to live. I don't know if I wanted to kill myself as much as I didn't want to live. |
Rush Limbaugh | Bush sold his stock in a struggling Texas energy company where he was a director, he signed a letter promising to hold onto the shares for at least six months. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | A communication will also be made of our progress in the execution of the law respecting the vessels directed to be sold. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Their manufactures, for the want of a ready or profitable market at home, have been shipped by the manufacturers to the United States, and in many instances sold at a price below their current value at the place of manufacture. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The amount paid into the Treasury by the purchasers of the public lands sold is not yet equal to the sums paid for the whole, but leaves a small balance to be refunded. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Much good, in my judgment, would be produced by prohibiting sales of the public lands except to actual settlers at a reasonable reduction of price, and to limit the quantity which shall be sold to them. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I will propose estate tax changes so that family businesses and family farms can be handed down from generation to generation without having to be sold to pay taxes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sold" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 75.62% of the time. "Sold" is used about 6,024 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 75.62% | 4,555 | 2,146 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 23.62% | 1,422 | 5,653 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.75% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,024 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sold": be sold ♦ be sold on ♦ be sold out ♦ good commonly sold in a pharmacy ♦ sold out. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sold": sold-out. | |
Ending with "sold": pre-sold, re-sold. | |
Containing "sold": if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-georgian-manor-house-in-the-country. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "sold"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shitur (fixed, unavailable, venal). (various references) | |
Arabic | باع (be sold on, clear, market, move, purvey, scrap, sell, vend). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | продаден. (various references) | |
Chinese | 卖 (selling, sold-out). (various references) | |
Czech | min.èas i příè.min. od sell. (various references) | |
Danish | varige forbrugsgoder,som sælges af husholdninger og af militæret til andre enheder:-til genbrug i den stand,hvori de forefindes;-til nedrivning og omdannelse til nedrivningsmaterialer (existing consumer durables which are sold by households or military authorities to other units:-to be re-used as such;-to be broken up and converted into demolition materials), varer og tjenester er markedsmæssige,dvs.om de sælges på markedet,eller om de er ikke-markedsmæssige,dvs.om de er gratis eller praktisk taget gratis (distributed free or almost free of charge, or non-market, sold on the market, that is to say, the goods and services market), vare der sædvandigvis forhandles i et apotek (good commonly sold in a pharmacy, parapharmaceutical product, quasi-drug), para-farmaceutisk vare (good commonly sold in a pharmacy, parapharmaceutical product, quasi-drug), pakke i detailsalgoplaegning (to put up in packings sold by retail), landbrugsproduktion solgt paa forhaandskontrakt (agricultural produce sold under previously concluded contract), lagertilgang-som registreres på det tidspunkt,hvor varerne produceres,forudsat at de ikke sælges med det samme,eller på det tidspunkt,hvor varerne købes,forudsat at de ikke anvendes med det samme (goods put into stock-recorded at the time they are produced but not sold immediately, or bought but not used immediately), for at kunne registreres blandt de værdier,som er genstand for transaktioner,skal guld handles på et marked,som kan være officielt eller ikke-officielt.Dette marked skal imidlertid være autoriseret og organiseret (be authorised and organised, financial gold must be sold on a market, for its value to be recorded among financial transactions, however, whether official or not.This market must), de varetilknyttede subsidier er alle de subsidier,som tildeles proportionalt med maengden eller vaerdien af de producerede varer og tjenester,som de hjemmehoerende produktionsenheder saelger paa det indenlandske marked eller eksporterer,inkl.monetaere udl (including monetary compensatory amounts granted on exports, sold on the domestic market or exported by resident producer units, subsidies on products are all subsidies granted in proportion to the quantity or value of the goods and services produced), bygninger eller andre realkapitalgoder,som sælges af produktionsenheder til andre enheder:-til genbrug i den stand,hvori de forefindes;-til nedrivning (existing buildings and other fixed capital goods which are sold by producer units to other units:-to be re-used as such;-to be demolished or broken up), bestemt til salg eller afsaetning paa markedet imod betaling (sold on the market, that is to say), antikviteter og eksisterende varer,der er solgt,men endnu ikke brugt igen (antiques and existing goods which have been sold, but which are not yet being used again). (various references) | |
Dutch | op de markt introduceren (market, place on the market, put on the market, to launch on the market, to market), op de markt brengen (market, place on the market, put on the market, to launch on the market, to market). (various references) | |
Farsi | فروخته شده , اغواشده , بفریفته , بفروش رفته . (various references) | |
Finnish | omistaja,jolta on evätty omistusoikeus (owner whose property has been sold up), meni kaupaksi kuin kuumille kiville (sold like hot cakes), loppuunmyyty (out of print, out of stock, sold out). (various references) | |
French | vendis, vendîmes, mettre sur le marché, introduire sur le marché, bradés, bradées, bradé, bradâmes. (various references) | |
German | verkauft (sells, vends). (various references) | |
Greek | αόρ. του sell. (various references) | |
Guarani | noñeñemúi (it is not sold). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכור (betraying, bribed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | eladott, értékesít (market, sell, to convert into money, to realize, to sell, utilise, utilize), árusít (to sell, to vend), árul (dispose of, sell, to sell, to vend, vend). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terniaga (traded). (various references) | |
Italian | vende (you sell), introdurre sul mercato (market). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 売約済み . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ばいやくすみ. (various references) | |
Korean | 매출하는. (various references) | |
Manx | er ny creck, creckit (vended). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oldsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vendido (sold out), proprietário privado da posse (owner whose property has been sold up), proprietário esbulhado (owner whose property has been sold up), produto parafarmacêutico (good commonly sold in a pharmacy, parapharmaceutical product, quasi-drug), para poder ser registado entre os valores objecto de operações financeiras,o ouro financeiro deve ser objecto de um mercado,oficial ou não,mas autorizado e organizado (be authorised and organised, financial gold must be sold on a market, for its value to be recorded among financial transactions, however, whether official or not.This market must), os bens e serviços de natureza mercantil,isto é,vendidos no mercado,ou de natureza não mercantil,isto é,fornecidos a título gratuito ou quase gratuito (distributed free or almost free of charge, or non-market, sold on the market, that is to say, the goods and services market), liquidado (extinct, finished, sold out, washed-up), esgotado (broken-down, dead-beat, exhausted, out, out-of-print, played-out, sold out, used up, whacked), entradas em existências-registadas no momento em que os bens são produzidos sem terem sido vendidos ou,em que os bens foram adquiridos sem terem sido imediatamente utilizados (goods put into stock-recorded at the time they are produced but not sold immediately, or bought but not used immediately), edifícios existentes e outros bens existentes de capital fixo que são cedidos por unidades de produção a outras unidades:-para serem reutilizados enquanto tal-para serem demolidos (existing buildings and other fixed capital goods which are sold by producer units to other units:-to be re-used as such;-to be demolished or broken up), direito de preferência (action for the refund by one or several heirs to a third party of the interest in an estate sold to him by a joint heir, pre-emption, pre-emption right, preemptive right, preemptive subscription right, stockholder's pre-emptive right, subscription right), bens existentes de consumo duradouros,que são cedidos pelas famílias e pelas administrações militares a outras unidades:-para serem reutilizados enquanto tal-para serem demolidos e se tornarem materiais de demolição (existing consumer durables which are sold by households or military authorities to other units:-to be re-used as such;-to be broken up and converted into demolition materials), antiguidades e bens existentes vendidos,e ainda não reutilizados (antiques and existing goods which have been sold, but which are not yet being used again), acondicionar para venda a retalho (to put up in packings sold by retail). (various references) | |
Romanian | vândut (out of print), trecut şi participiu trecut de la sell. (various references) | |
Russian | продавать (carry, dispose of, realize, sell, sells, vend, vending). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prodan, proš. vreme i particip od sell. (various references) | |
Spanish | vendido (out of print), pret y pp de sell, llevar al mercado (market, place on the market, put on the market, to launch on the market, to market), introducir en el mercado (market, place on the market, put on the market, to launch on the market, to market). (various references) | |
Swedish | såld (disposed of). (various references) | |
Thai | กริยาช่องที่ 2 และ 3 ของ sell. (various references) | |
Turkish | memnuniyetle kabul etmek (be sold on), kalmamak (be out of smth., be sold out, not to remain, not to stay, wear away, wither, wither away), kabul etmek (accede, accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, affiliate, agree, allow, approve, assent, avow oneself, be sold on, certify, consent, enfranchise, enrol, fall in with, Favor, favour, go along with, grant, have, honor, honour, own, receive, recognize, regard as, say yes, settle for, sustain, take, take in, thole, turn thumbs up on, witness), inanmak (be persuaded that, be sold on, believe, buy, credit, deem, esteem, give credence to, put faith in, rely, swallow, trust), hepsi satılmak (be sold out), benimsemek (adopt, assimilate, be sold on, commandeer, embrace, espouse, interiorize, internalize, latch on to, seize, seize upon, take up seriously). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бути у захопленні (be sold on). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự đánh lừa (bam, deceit, delusion, illusiveness, lurk, sell, spoof). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vena, veni, venique, venis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hdunato gar touto to muron praqhnai pollou kai doqhnai ptwcoiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Potuit enim istud venundari multo et dari pauperibus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þis mihte beon ge-seald to mycele wurðe.& þearfen ge-dæled. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And be youun to pore men. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | This oyntmet myght have bene well solde and geven to the povre. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Kay kini ikabaligya baya untag dakung bili, ug ang halin ikahatag ngadto sa mga kabus." |
| Croatian | Moglo se to skupo prodati i dati siromasima." |
| Danish | Dette kunde jo være solgt til en høj Pris og være givet til fattige." |
| Dutch | Want deze zalf had kunnen duur verkocht, en de penningen den armen gegeven worden. |
| Finnish | Olisihan sen voinut myydä kalliista hinnasta ja antaa rahat köyhille." |
| French | On aurait pu vendre ce parfum très cher, et en donner le prix aux pauvres. |
| German | Dieses Wasser hätte mögen teuer verkauft und den Armen gegeben werden. |
| Hungarian | Mert eladhatták volna ezt a kenetet nagy áron, és adhatták volna a szegényeknek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Minyak wangi itu dapat dijual dengan harga yang tinggi, dan uangnya diberikan kepada orang miskin!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena minyak ini boleh laku dijual dengan mahal harganya, disedekahkan kepada orang miskin." |
| Italian | Lo si poteva vendere a caro prezzo per darlo ai poveri!». |
| Latvian | Jo varçja to dârgi pârdot un naudu izdalît trûcîgajiem. |
| Manx Gaelic | Son oddagh yn ooil shoh v'er ny ve creckit son mooarane, as er ny choyrt da ny boghtyn. |
| Maori | He nui hoki te utu me i hokona tenei hinu kakara, ka hoatu ki te hunga rawakore. |
| Norwegian | Dette kunde jo være solgt for mange penger og gitt til de fattige. |
| Portuguese | Pois este bálsamo podia ser vendido por muito dinheiro, que se daria aos pobres. |
| Rumanian | Mirul acesta s`ar fi putut vinde foarte scump, wi banii sq se dea sqracilor.`` |
| Shuar | Antsu ti kuitjai suruk shuar Kuítrincha ainia nuna Yáitskesha" tiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Porque esto podría haberse vendido a un gran precio y haberse dado a los pobres. |
| Swahili | Marashi haya yangaliweza kuuzwa kwa bei kubwa, maskini wakapewa hizo fedha." |
| Swedish | Man hade ju kunnat sälja det för mycket penningar och giva dessa åt de fattiga." |
| Uma | Ke agina rapobalu' lau bona oli-na rawai' -raka tokabu." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sold": soldan, soldans, solder, solderabilities, solderability, soldered, solderer, solderers, soldering, solders, soldi, soldier, soldiered, soldieries, soldiering, soldierings, soldierly, soldiers, soldiership, soldierships, soldiery, soldo. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sold": outsold, oversold, presold, resold, undersold, unsold. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sold": resolder, resoldered, resoldering, resolders, unsolder, unsoldered, unsoldering, unsolders, unsoldierly. (additional references) | |
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"Sold" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dold, esol, Isolt, isould, jold, nold, Osl, sadl, sald, shold, sild, sildo, skol, sld, sload, slod, slood, sloud, slowd, slv, smold, soed, soid, soild, solde, solf, soljd, solk, soll, solla, soln, solu, soly, sood, sool, sould, soyd, stold, suld, Svold, zeld, zol, zold. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sold" (pronounced sō"ld) |
| 4 | s ō" l d | consoled, outsold, oversold, resold, undersold, unsold. |
| 3 | -ō" l d | ahold, behold, bold, bowled, cajoled, cold, controlled, decontrolled, doled, enfold, enrolled, extolled, fold, foretold, gold, hold, holed, Mold, mould, old, paroled, patrolled, polled, remold, rolled, scold, strolled, told, tolled, twofold, uncontrolled, unfold, untold, uphold, withhold, wold. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dols, olds. | |
| Words within the letters "d-l-o-s" | |
-1 letter: dol, dos, ods, old, sod, sol. | |
-2 letters: do, lo, od, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-l-o-s" | |
+1 letter: bolds, clods, colds, diols, doles, dolls, dolts, folds, golds, holds, idols, lidos, loads, lodes, lords, molds, odyls, plods, scold, sloid, slojd, sloyd, soldi, soldo, soled, solid, wolds. | |
+2 letters: aholds, aldols, aldose, allods, blonds, bloods, closed, clouds, dholes, dildos, doblas, dolmas, dolors, dorsal, dorsel, dossal, dossel, dossil, dowels, drolls, drools, floods, indols, lodens, lodges, loosed, loused, models, moulds, odyles, oldest, oldies, oldish, oodles, podsol, resold, scolds, seldom, should, siloed, sloids, slojds, sloped, slowed, sloyds, soiled, soland, soldan, solder, solidi, solids, soloed, solved, souled, stoled, stolid, unsold, woalds, worlds, yodels, yodles. | |
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