Usually means: Ability or possibility in past.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word could:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. could: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. could: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. could: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. could: Collins English Dictionary
  5. could: Vocabulary.com
  6. COuld, Could, could, could: Wordnik
  7. could: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. could: Wiktionary
  9. could: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. could: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. could: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Could, could: Dictionary.com
  13. could: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. could: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Could: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Could: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. could: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Could: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. could: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. could: Free Dictionary
  21. could: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. could: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. could: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. could: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Could: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  conditional of can
▸ verb:  Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
▸ verb:  Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
▸ verb:  Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
▸ verb:  Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
▸ verb:  Used to suggest something.
▸ noun:  Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

Similar:
might, would, coud, should, couldn, able, cannot, must, possibly, conceivably, more...

Opposite:
cannot, unable, incapable, powerless, impotent

Types:
might, would, should, could have, would have, should have, could have had, would have had, should have had, more...

Phrases:
could be, could have, could use, could care less, didn't trust as far as could throw, more...

Adjectives:
how, she, what, epistemic, baring

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Similar:
might, would, coud, should, couldn, able, cannot, must, possibly, conceivably, more...

Opposite:
cannot, unable, incapable, powerless, impotent

Types:
might, would, should, could have, would have, should have, could have had, would have had, should have had, more...

Phrases:
could be, could have, could use, could care less, didn't trust as far as could throw, didnt trust as far as could throw, doesn't trust as far as could throw, doesnt trust as far as could throw, more...

Adjectives:
how, she, what, epistemic, baring

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     white,     blue,     green, more...



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