PLAYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does played mean? 

• PLAYED (adjective)
  The adjective PLAYED has 1 sense:

1. (of games) engaged in

  Familiarity information: PLAYED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of games) engaged in

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

the loosely played game

Domain category:

game (a contest with rules to determine a winner)

Participle:

play (participate in games or sport)

 Context examples 

Holmes thought for a little, and then a curious smile played over his face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a very lonely soul, I was to learn, that never unmasked, though at rare moments it played at doing so.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She softly played on, looking at me still.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He did not understand the music she played.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You have played so many pranks that I am afraid you have had a hand in this.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You have played a rather dangerous game, and it strikes me that you have lost it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The longest day never played White Fang out.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There is no one in the house except old Martha, who has played her part to admiration.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She played a simple air, and her voice accompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)