Sold
/səʊld/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 salary; military pay obsolete
"But were your will her sold to entertaine"
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of sell form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 disposed of to a purchaser wordnet
Example
More examples"We arrived at that plan out of pure desperation, but the book sold well."
Etymology
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.