UNDERSTAND • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Understand

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˌəndərstˈænd/ Listen

Understand

verb

(past & past part. understood, archaic understanded; pres. part. understanding)

Know and comprehend the nature or meaning of. "I understand what she means"

Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally. Synonyms: realise, realize, see. "I just can't see your point" , "Does she realize how important this decision is?" , "I don't understand the idea"

Make sense of a language. Synonyms: interpret, read, translate. "Can you read Greek?"

Believe to be the case. Synonym: infer.

Be understanding of. Synonyms: empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize.

See more definitions of Understand...

See images of 'Understand'

Etymology of 'Understand'

Related searches:

understandable

understanding

Share |

"Understand" Quotes from Famous Books

... K.'s message of the 20th instant,—the message sent me in reply to my appeal for 50,000 fresh troops and 45,000 drafts. In it K. tells me that a big push is going to take place in the Western theatre, and that I "must understand that no reinforcements of importance can be diverted from the main theatre of operations in France." Certain named transports are carrying, he says, more troops to Egypt, and he hopes Maxwell will be able to spare me some. If we can't get through with these we must hang ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton

... facilities for successful intensive cultivation—a dense population and idle, cultivable land. In choosing a location, the home crofter should well consider his experience, and try to enter a community where he can engage in analogous pursuits. Dairy regions never have enough men who understand cattle and horses; fruit-growing districts always need experienced pickers; market garden regions need men who understand rotating crops and making hotbeds, ...

— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

... shall endeavour to find, I think my reader will understand. I will not describe him, beyond saying that he must above all things be just, generous, and free from the petty prejudices of the country gentleman. He must understand that property involves service to every human soul that lives or labours ...

— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald

... whereupon I immediately introduced this French girl into the family, forgetting how little English they have absorbed, and the result has been that they pass their days delightfully in teaching her German. They were astonished at first on discovering that she could not understand a word they said, and soon set about altering such an uncomfortable state of things; and as they are three to one and very zealous, and she is a meek little person with a profile like a teapot with a twisted black handle of hair, their success was practically certain from the beginning, and she ...

— The Solitary Summer • Elizabeth von Arnim

... word. I'm going straight to the provost-marshal's to tell them what I know, and explain away this whole thing. A most extraordinary piece of scoundrelism is at the bottom of it all, but I am beginning to understand it, fully. Doctor, will you trust me? Will you let me try and be Guthrie to you to-night; and promise me to lie still here until I come back from ...

— A War-Time Wooing - A Story • Charles King

More quotes...