Word Meanings - RETURN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." Chaucer. On their embattled ranks the waves return. Milton. If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. Locke. Dust thou

Additional info about word: RETURN

1. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." Chaucer. On their embattled ranks the waves return. Milton. If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. Locke. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19. 2. To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again. With the year Seasons return; but not me returns Day or the sweet approach of even or morn. Milton. 3. To speak in answer; to reply; to respond. He said, and thus the queen of heaven returned. Pope. 4. To revert; to pass back into possession. And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David. 1Kings xii. 26. 5. To go back in thought, narration, or argument. "But to return to my story." Fielding.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETURN)

• Recede
• Retire
• withdraw
• retreat
• retrograde
• return
• ebb
• Reflect
• Return
• image
• mirror
• exhibit
• consider
• think
• cogitate
• meditate
• contemplate
• ponder
• muse
• ruminate
• heed
• advert
• animadvert
• Refix
• redound
• Refund
• Repay
• restore
• pay back
• reimburse
• Regression
• Retreat
• retrogradation
• retrogression
• retirement

Related words: (words related to RETURN)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• PONDEROUS
  1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• RETROGRADATION
  1. The act of retrograding, or moving backward. 2. The state of being retrograde; decline.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• REIMBURSEMENT
  The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
• PONDERARY
  Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. M'Culloch.
• COGITATE
  To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. (more info) prob. fr. co-
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• PONDERAL
  Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. Arbuthnot.
• RUMINATE; RUMINATED
  Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• PONDEROUSLY
  In a ponderous manner.
• THINK
  confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• PREPONDERATINGLY
  In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.