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SURMOUNTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does surmounted mean?
• SURMOUNTED (adjective)
The adjective SURMOUNTED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SURMOUNTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having something on top
Classified under:
Participial adjectives
Context example:
columns surmounted by statues
Participle:
surmount (be on top of)
Context examples
You find us, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, with one eye on Traddles, at present established, on what may be designated as a small and unassuming scale; but, you are aware that I have, in the course of my career, surmounted difficulties, and conquered obstacles.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We were immured in ice and should probably never escape, but they feared that if, as was possible, the ice should dissipate and a free passage be opened, I should be rash enough to continue my voyage and lead them into fresh dangers, after they might happily have surmounted this.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
There was a main gateway of lichen-studded stone, each side pillar surmounted by mouldering heraldic emblems, but besides this central carriage drive I observed several points where there were gaps in the hedge and paths leading through them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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