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based on

based on is the simple past and past participle of base on.

Meaning of base on

Verb

base on (third-person singular simple present bases on, present participle basing on, simple past and past participle based on)

  1. (ditransitive) To ground (an opinion, a conclusion, etc) on.
    Synonyms:
    base upon, premise, base off of, base off, bottom on, judging by, consist in, predicate on
  2. (ditransitive) To derive (a work) from.

Preposition

based on

  1. (disjunctive, proscribed, sometimes) On the basis of; because of; due to; according to; on the strength of; as per.
    • Based on his assessment of the designer's intent, he ordered that the welds on the support beams be built up larger than those seen in the prototype.
    • She wanted to investigate further, based on some things that she had overheard.

Questions about based on

What does based on mean?
Based on means on the basis of; because of; due to; according to; on the strength of; as per.
What is based on the simple past and past participle of?
Based on is the simple past and past participle of base on.
What part of speech is based on?
Based on is a preposition.

Words near based on in the dictionary

  1. basecourt
  2. basecourts
  3. based
  4. based off
  5. based off of
  6. based on
  7. based upon
  8. basedness
  9. Basedow
  10. Basedow's disease
  11. Basedow's syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: based on (page history and authors); base on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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