displayed
/dɪsˈpleɪd/
displayed is the simple past and past participle of display.
Adjective
displayed (comparative more displayed, superlative most displayed)
- Spread out; unfurled.
- They threw him round the displayed roots of the beeches, leapt when a puddle of water lay across the trail.1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 11
- Spread open to view; shown off.
- With wings unfurled.
- Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.
Meaning of display
Verb
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
- To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
- Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
- The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies.1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court...
- To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- To discover; to descry.
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer...
- To spread out, to unfurl.
- The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- splay
Forms of displayed
| comparative | more displayed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most displayed |
Words that rhyme with displayed
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- palisade
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- arcade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- aide
- cannonade
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
- embayed
Questions about displayed
- What does displayed mean?
- Displayed means spread out; unfurled.
- What is displayed the simple past and past participle of?
- Displayed is the simple past and past participle of display.
- What part of speech is displayed?
- Displayed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce displayed?
- Displayed is pronounced /dɪsˈpleɪd/.
Words near displayed in the dictionary
Source and license
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