paid
/peɪd/
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Australia/pæɪd/
paid is the simple past and past participle of pay.
Adjective
paid (not comparable)
Meaning of pay
Verb
pay (third-person singular simple present pays, present participle paying, simple past and past participle paid or (obsolete) payed)
- To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
- pay cash or pay in cash, pay by credit/debit card
- To deposit into an account.
- I pay a portion of each paycheck into a savings account.
- To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
- to pay compensation, to pay a fine
- To be profitable; to be worth it.
- It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.
- To cover, as a cost.
- Those investments paid for her college education.
- To yield as a benefit.
- to pay dividends; to pay interest
Synonyms of paid
Antonyms
Forms of paid
| alternative form (archaic) | payed |
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Origin of paid
From pay + -ed.
From Middle English paid, payd, ipaid, ypayd, past participle of Middle English paien, payen (“to pay”), equivalent to pay + -ed.
Words formed from paid
Phrases with paid
- paid off
- paid out
- paid back
- paid down
- paid heed
- paid home
- paid overs
- paid dearly
- paid a visit
- paid forward
- paid no heed
- paid no mind
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- paid respect
- paid to play
- paid towards
- puts paid to
- paid the rent
- paid attention
- paid dividends
- paid homage to
- paid one's way
- paid the bills
- paid the piper
- paid the price
- paid for itself
- paid it forward
- paid one's dues
- putting paid to
- Carriage Paid To
- paid the fiddler
- paid the freight
- paid the penalty
- pitched and paid
- not paid any mind
- paid nature's debt
- paid one's own way
- paid someone's way
- Delivered Duty Paid
- paid off old scores
- paid one's respects
- paid one's addresses
- paid with one's life
- paid through the nose
- paid for one's whistle
- paid one's own freight
- paid the ultimate price
- paid good money after bad
- paid one's debt to society
- paid back in someone's own coin
Words that rhyme with paid
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- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- raid
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- 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 paid
- What does paid mean?
- Paid means not free of charge; costing money.
- What is paid the simple past and past participle of?
- Paid is the simple past and past participle of pay.
- What part of speech is paid?
- Paid is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce paid?
- Paid is pronounced /peɪd/ (UK).
Words near paid in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: paid (page history and authors); pay (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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