say

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: sā, IPA: /seɪ/, SAMPA: /seI/
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  Rhymes: -eɪ

[edit] Etymology

Old English secġan

[edit] Verb

to say (third-person singular simple present says, present participle saying, simple past and past participle said)

1. To pronounce

   Please say your name slowly and clearly.

2. To recite

   Martha, will you say grace?

3. To communicate, either verbally or in writing

   He said he would be here tomorrow.

4. To indicate in a written form

   The sign says it’s 50 kilometres to Paris.

5. (impersonal) to have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact
   • 1815, George Gordon Byron, The Hebrew Melodies/They say that Hope is happiness:

     They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.

   • 1819, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, page 8:

     It is said, a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.

   • 1841, Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine), page 379:

     It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.

[edit] Derived terms

• sayer
• saying

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• dessay
• doomsaying
• nay-say
• you don't say

[edit] References

• "say" at The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

“say” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

[edit] Crimean Tatar

[edit] Noun

say

1. shallow place, island.

[edit] Declension

[edit] References

• Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]

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[edit] Adjective

say

1. Drunk, inebriated.