Usually means: Possessed, owned, or experienced before.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word had:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. had: Merriam-Webster
  2. had: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. had: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. had: Collins English Dictionary
  5. had: Vocabulary.com
  6. Had, ha'd, had, had: Wordnik
  7. had: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. had: Wiktionary
  9. had: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. had: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. had: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Had, had: Dictionary.com
  13. had: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Had: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Had: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. had: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Had: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. had: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. HAD: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. had: FreeDictionary.org
  21. had: ESL Idiom Page
  22. had: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. had: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. had: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. had: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HAD: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HAD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. had: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. had: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. h.a.d, had: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (auxiliary, followed by a past participle) Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past.
▸ verb:  (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.

Similar:
was, been, got, know, saw, DID, wish, could, give, wanted, more...

Opposite:
lacked, needed, wanted, required, missed

Types:
past simple, past perfect, present perfect, present simple, future simple, future perfect, conditional perfect, conditional simple, more...

Phrases:
had done, had it, had at, had better, had on, more...

Adjectives:
what, she, how, god, nobody, part, late, teniet, advanced, others

Colors:
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Similar:
was, been, got, know, saw, DID, wish, could, give, wanted, more...

Opposite:
lacked, needed, wanted, required, missed

Types:
past simple, past perfect, present perfect, present simple, future simple, future perfect, conditional perfect, conditional simple, more...

Phrases:
had done, had it, had at, had better, had on, had got, be had, had rather, had sex, been had, had best, was had, had need, had up, had taped, have had it, had a fit, had it in for, had crime, had it coming, more...

Adjectives:
what, she, how, god, nobody, part, late, teniet, advanced, others

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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