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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Meaning of "beholden" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BEHOLDEN

Old English behealden, past participle of behealdan to behold.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BEHOLDEN

beholden  [bɪˈhəʊldən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEHOLDEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Beholden is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BEHOLDEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of beholden in the English dictionary

The definition of beholden in the dictionary is indebted; obliged; under a moral obligation.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BEHOLDEN


Basildon
ˈbæzɪldən
Bolden
ˈbəʊldən
Eldon
ˈɛldən
embolden
ɪmˈbəʊldən
gilden
ˈɡɪldən
golden
ˈɡəʊldən
gulden
ˈɡʊldən
gylden
ˈɡɪldən
holden
ˈhəʊldən
Maldon
ˈmɔːldən
milden
ˈmaɪldən
olden
ˈəʊldən
Selden
ˈsɛldən
soldan
ˈsəʊldən
Tilden
ˈtɪldən
unbeholden
ˌʌnbɪˈhəʊldən
unwithholden
ˌʌnwɪðˈhəʊldən
Weldon
ˈwɛldən
Wimbledon
ˈwɪmbəldən
withholden
wɪðˈhəʊldən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEHOLDEN

behind bars
behind line
behind one´s back
behind post
behind the curve
behind the eight ball
behind the scenes
behind the times
behindhand
Behistun
Behn
behold
beholder
behoof
behoove
behooves
behove
behoveful
behovely
behowl

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEHOLDEN

Baden
burden
den
Dresden
Eden
forbidden
garden
Gulf of Aden
hidden
iron maiden
laden
Leiden
madden
maiden
Nidwalden
Obwalden
sudden
Sweden
Unterwalden
wooden

Synonyms and antonyms of beholden in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BEHOLDEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «beholden» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of beholden

Translation of «beholden» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEHOLDEN

Find out the translation of beholden to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of beholden from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «beholden» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

受惠
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en deuda
570 millions of speakers

English

beholden
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कृतज्ञ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بالفضل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

обязанным
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

em dívida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাধিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

redevable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wahai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verpflichtet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

恩義を受けて
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신세
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Delengen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mang ơn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடமைப்பட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऐकणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

borçlu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

grato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zobowiązany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зобов´язаним
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

îndatorați
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπόχρεος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

beholden
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

takknemlighetsgjeld
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of beholden

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEHOLDEN»

The term «beholden» is regularly used and occupies the 88.401 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEHOLDEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «beholden» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «beholden» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beholden

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10 QUOTES WITH «BEHOLDEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word beholden.
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Bob Barr
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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Charlie Crist
As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.
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E. L. Doctorow
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Phil Donahue
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
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Josh Fox
Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.
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Harold H. Greene
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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Chad Harbach
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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Iqbal Quadir
When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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John Ridley
It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEHOLDEN»

Discover the use of beholden in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beholden and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Beholden
New York City 1950.
Larry Schliessmann, 2006
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Beholden to the Throne
Suitable for his bed.
Carol Marinelli, 2013
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Beholden
In the 1890s, Kathleen O'Sullivan flees famine-stricken Ireland with her clairvoyant younger sister and journeys to the coast of North Carolina, where she finds the lonely bachelor for whom her father gave up his life. Original.
Bronwyn Williams, 1998
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Beholden
Terry was fleeing the murder she had seen, up to a mountain hideaway.
Pat Warren, 2009
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Beholden
Peter is a planning officer at Nottingham City Council. Every day, as he boards the bus for work, he notices a girl who gets on at the same stop and spends the journey scribbling furiously in a battered notebook.
Clare Littleford, 2003
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Beholden: A Philosophical Apology for the Debt of Wisdom to ...
Since the 19th century, the ancient privilege of visual lexis in epistemic discourse has been taxed as at best a critical 'blindspot' concerning the mechanism of knowledge and at worst as a site of sinister surveillance and brutal, ...
Gordon Blaine Steffey, 2008
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The Beholden State: California’s Lost Promise and How to ...
California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It Brian C. Anderson. Illustration by Arnold Roth. a blanket surrounded by a fortress of backpacks, bedrolls, and.
Brian C. Anderson, 2013
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The Tract magazine; or, Christian miscellany. [Continued as] ...
Or, like the unbelieving Jews who would not come to the blessed One that they might have life, you also turn away from Jesus of Nazareth — you will not be beholden to him. Or, like those who are represented as going about to establish their ...
Tract magazine, 1866
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Beholden
Will Brett provide the love that Pam desires-or is he simply beholden to a woman who can save his life? Kevin, who longs for a child, finds solace in the arms of Hilary, the mother of a young boy for whom Kevin is a mentor.
D. B. Binns, 2007
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An English-Latin Lexicon Prepared to Accompany Leverett's ...
BEHOLDEN. '— To he beholden to one, nli- cui obuoxium esae, alicujus be ne fie m obl'gatuin ease. — To make beholden to oaers gel/, aliquem eibi obligare, ob- ttnngere, deviucire ; (by something, ali- qiin re). — He is beholden to me jar his ...
Frederick Percival Leverett, Henry Warren Torrey, 1845

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEHOLDEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term beholden is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why the Democrats Will Do and Say Anything To Stop Donald Trump
Because they are all beholden to big money donors. They are all owned by lobbyists, unions, lawyers, gigantic environmental organizations, ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»
2
Caricom stance on Venezuela-Guyana border dispute correct
But if he doesn't, we shouldn't be too surprised, because the PetroCaribe arrangement, valuable as it is, has left the Caribbean beholden to ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
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David Coulthard column: Lewis Hamilton is pure box office
Of course, it is beholden upon Mercedes' rivals to sort themselves out and catch up. But at the moment, with the rules the way they are, their ... «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
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After the Greek referendum: What will Merkel do?
The referendum was a clear signal that Athens refuses to be beholden to its creditors, said Markus Ferber, who oversees euro policy for the ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
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Editorial: Keep Hillsborough County Commission at seven
The commission is already political enough and would suffer if more members were beholden to parochial concerns. There is no need to tinker ... «Tampabay.com, Jul 15»
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Why Buy in a Flood Zone?
It is not unreasonable to think of the city as a wildly successful real-estate company that is beholden to its shareholders, who vote. Though of ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
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Joor Hunts for Growth While Cash-Flow Positive
“I don't want to be beholden to investors. I don't want investors to bankroll my cash burn. The business should support the burn.”. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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ACLU goes to court to ensure child protection funds
But Rauner has repeatedly blamed Madigan and Cullerton for the state's financial predicament, saying they have been beholden to public ... «Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 15»
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Naomi Klein: We Can Save Ourselves, but Only If We Learn to Work …
In our conviction that you cannot call yourself a democracy if you are beholden to multinational polluters. Around the world, the climate justice ... «AlterNet, Jul 15»
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PARCC out, AIR in after whirlwind of Common Core testing changes …
And they aren't beholden to investors--that's not to say they don't have ties to people who ultimately stand to benefit financially from their ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»

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