have

noun

(idiomatic, usually contrastive) A wealthy or privileged person.

(idiomatic, uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.

verb

(transitive) To possess, own.

(transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

(transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

(transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).

(transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).

(transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

(transitive) To experience, go through, undergo.

(transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

(auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.

(transitive) To give birth to.

(informal, usually passive) To obtain.

(transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.

(transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.

(transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.

(transitive) To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.

(transitive) To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.

Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)

(auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.

(transitive) To be afflicted with, suffer from.

(transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is a small clause.)

(British, slang, transitive) To defeat in a fight; take.

(British, slang, transitive) To inflict punishment or retribution on.

(transitive) To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

(informal, often passive, transitive) To trick, to deceive.

(transitive, in the negative, often in continuous tenses) To allow; to tolerate.

(transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.

(transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.

(transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

(transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

(transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species).

(dated outside Ireland, transitive) To be able to speak (a language).

Synonyms for have

possessv getv takev ownadj should holdv makev sufferv letv receivev mustn acceptv needv

Words related to have

hadv hathv beenv would hasn gotv could hastv givev alreadyadv werev theyadj couldst ungottenv bev didv cannot wouldst neveradv mightn wantv gottenv aren dov cann willn notadv

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