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enclosed

Syllables: en·closed/ənˈkləʊzd/US/ənˈkloʊzd/

enclosed adjective: contained; held within a container. Also the simple past and past participle of enclose.

Adjective

enclosed (comparative more enclosed, superlative most enclosed)

  1. Contained; held within a container.
    • The gas is completely enclosed within the bottle.
    Synonyms:
    included
  2. Surrounded by a wall, fence or similar barrier.
    • an enclosed garden
  3. (one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.

Also used as

enclosed is also the simple past and past participle of enclose.

enclosed meaning in Telugu and Nepali

enclosed in Telugu

surrounded
ఆవృతము āvr̥tamu

enclosed in Nepali

परिवेष्टित

Examples of enclosed in a sentence

  • In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
  • Parenthetical referencing is a citation style which uses in-line citations enclosed within parentheses.
  • In its elongated form, the shen ring became the cartouche which enclosed and protected a royal name.

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Synonyms of enclosed

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Forms of enclosed

comparativemore enclosed
superlativemost enclosed

Words formed from enclosed

Phrases with enclosed

Questions about enclosed

What does enclosed mean?
Enclosed means contained; held within a container.
What is enclosed in Telugu?
Enclosed in Telugu is ఆవృతము (āvr̥tamu). See Enclosed meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is enclosed?
Enclosed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce enclosed?
Enclosed is pronounced /ənˈkloʊzd/ (US).

Words near enclosed in the dictionary

  1. encloisters
  2. enclomifene
  3. enclomiphene
  4. enclosable
  5. enclose
  6. enclosed
  7. enclosed order
  8. enclosed orders
  9. enclosedness
  10. encloser
  11. enclosers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enclosed (page history and authors); enclosed (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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