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make of

make of verb: to form an opinion about (someone or something); to appraise (a person, idea or situation).

Verb

make of (third-person singular simple present makes of, present participle making of, simple past and past participle made of)

  1. (transitive) To form an opinion about (someone or something); to appraise (a person, idea or situation).
    • What do you make of the new guy?
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, of.
    • Caesar made rich men of his supporters back in Rome.
    • To make of carrots alone, put in about two pounds sliced carrots in stewpan with three tablespoons butter and place where they will stew gently an hour without browning.1887, “Carrot Soup”, in Estelle W[oods] Wilcox, compiler, The Buckeye Cook Book. […], subscription edition, Minneapolis, Minn.: Buckeye Publishing Co. […], →OCLC, “Soups” section, page 831

make of meaning in Bengali

make of in Bengali

to make of
মনে করা mone kora

Forms of make of

third-person singular presentmakes of
present participlemaking of
past participlemade of
pastmade of

Questions about make of

What does make of mean?
Make of means to form an opinion about (someone or something); to appraise (a person, idea or situation).
What is make of in Bengali?
Make of in Bengali is মনে করা (mone kora). See Make of meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is make of?
Make of is a verb.
What is the past tense of make of?
The past tense of make of is made of.

Words near make of in the dictionary

  1. make no odds
  2. make no secret of
  3. make noise
  4. make noises
  5. make nothing of
  6. make of
  7. make off
  8. make off with
  9. make off without payment
  10. make old bones
  11. make one

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Adapted from Wiktionary: make of (page history and authors); মনে করা (Bengali) (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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