GOVERNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does governed mean? 

• GOVERNED (noun)
  The noun GOVERNED has 1 sense:

1. the body of people who are citizens of a particular government

  Familiarity information: GOVERNED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOVERNED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The body of people who are citizens of a particular government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed

Hypernyms ("governed" is a kind of...):

citizenry; people (the body of citizens of a state or country)

 Context examples 

I have laid down my plan, and if I am capable of adhering to it—my feelings shall be governed and my temper improved.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If I have wounded your sister's feelings, it was unknowingly done and though the motives which governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient, I have not yet learnt to condemn them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Movement of the lip corners is governed by the zygomatic major muscle.

(Movement of Lip Corners, NCI Thesaurus)

Highly conductive organic semiconductors, the researchers found, are governed by a new mechanism for spin transport that transforms them into excellent conductors of spin.

(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)

So far I have governed myself thoroughly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The commercialisation of these life-saving drugs, which is currently decided by a tender system in various states in India, should rather be governed by the outcomes of stringent preclinical evaluations, he suggests.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

The group’s analyses identified an epigenetic mark—a genetic feature not directly governed by the genetic code—that is associated with saturated fat intake exclusively in subjects who carry this genetic factor.

(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A myriad laws governed all these things and determined conduct; yet he did not know the speech of the gods, nor was there any way for him to learn save by experience.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It is about one third as large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful: it is governed by the head of a certain tribe, who are all magicians.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They found that, although the Sun's cycles appear to differ from those of other stars of its type, they are governed by the same laws working in the same way.

(Sun's mood swings not so strange after all, Wikinews)