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The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
Peter Abrahams

Meaning of "dispossessed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DISPOSSESSED

dispossessed  [ˌdɪspəˈzɛst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISPOSSESSED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dispossessed is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DISPOSSESSED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness. The book won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974, won both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1975, and received a nomination for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975. It achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction works due to its exploration of many ideas and themes, including anarchism and revolutionary societies, capitalism, individualism and collectivism, and the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. It features the development of the mathematical theory underlying the fictional ansible, an instantaneous communications device that plays a critical role in Le Guin's Hainish Cycle. The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth Hainish novel published.

Definition of dispossessed in the English dictionary

The definition of dispossessed in the dictionary is the dispossessed The dispossessed are people who are dispossessed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISPOSSESSED


best
bɛst
breast
brɛst
Budapest
ˌbjuːdəˈpɛst
chest
tʃɛst
contest
ˈkɒntɛst
est
ɛst
fest
fɛst
guest
ɡɛst
jest
dʒɛst
possessed
pəˈzɛst
processed
ˈprəʊsɛst
quest
kwɛst
request
rɪˈkwɛst
rest
rɛst
suggest
səˈdʒɛst
test
tɛst
unpossessed
ʌnpəˈzɛst
unprepossessed
ˌʌnpriːpəˈzɛst
west
wɛst
zest
zɛst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISPOSSESSED

disposables
disposal
disposal unit
dispose
disposed
disposedly
disposer
disposingly
disposings
disposition
dispositional
dispositive
dispositively
dispositor
dispossess
dispossession
dispossessor
dispossessory
dispost
disposure

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISPOSSESSED

all-dressed
blessed
compressed
depressed
distressed
hard-pressed
impressed
obsessed
oppressed
pressed
professed
recessed
repressed
stressed
the blessed
to be sadly missed
undressed
unimpressed
unprocessed
unstressed
well-dressed

Synonyms and antonyms of dispossessed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DISPOSSESSED»

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

Translation of «dispossessed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISPOSSESSED

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

Translator English - Chinese

剥夺
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desposeídos
570 millions of speakers

English

dispossessed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वंचितों
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جردوا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

обездоленных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

despossuídos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দখলচু্যত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dépossédés
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hilang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

enteignet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

立ち退かされた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

박탈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepiye?
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tước đoạt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dispossessed
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेकायदेशीर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mülksüzleştirilmiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

espropriati
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wywłaszczonych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

знедолених
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

deposedați
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στερήθηκαν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onteiende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

egendoms
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fratatt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dispossessed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISPOSSESSED»

The term «dispossessed» is regularly used and occupies the 85.050 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISPOSSESSED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dispossessed» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dispossessed» 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 dispossessed

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5 QUOTES WITH «DISPOSSESSED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dispossessed.
1
Peter Abrahams
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
2
H. Rap Brown
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
3
Mary Gordon
Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
4
Colum McCann
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.
5
Kushal Pal Singh
When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISPOSSESSED»

Discover the use of dispossessed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dispossessed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Dispossessed: A Novel
Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, risks his life by traveling to the mother planet of Urras in the hope of offering wisdom to its inhabitants and to reunite the two long-alienated worlds.
Ursula K. Le Guin, 2003
2
Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed
After liberating itself from French colonial rule in one of the twentieth century’s most brutal wars of independence, Algeria became a standard-bearer for the non-aligned movement.
Martin Evans, John Phillips, 2007
3
Dispossessed: life in our world's urban slums
For the first time in history, more people live in cities than in the country side; one billion of them in housing constructed from whatever materials are at hand, wherever they can build.
Mark Kramer, 2006
4
Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros
Hamner briefly explains his perception of the epic tradition and its viability in contemporary literature.
Robert D. Hamner, 1997
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Protecting the Dispossessed: A Challenge for the ...
In this book, a substantially revised version of his report to the UN, Deng examines the causes and consequences of internal displacement, the legal standards for protection and assistance, enforcement mechanisms, the prevailing conditions ...
Francis Mading Deng
6
The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of Exile
The contributors to this volume were all faculty and fellows of a year-long colloquium, "The Anatomy of Exile," at Smith College of participants in one of two conferences held in conjunction with the colloquium.
Peter Isaac Rose, 2005
7
The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and ...
More generally, the book challenges current views about possession and marginal status, particularly in reference to gender and age, insightful discussions of the lives of migrant adults and children as they seek relief.
Lesley Alexandra Sharp, 1993
8
Conquest by Law : How the Discovery of America Dispossessed ...
This is a gripping tale of political collusion, detailing how a spurious claim gave rise to a doctrine--intended to be of limited application--which itself gave rise to a massive displacement of persons and the creation of a law that ...
History and Native American Studies University of Oklahoma College of Law Lindsay G. Robertson Orpha and Maurice Merrill Professor of Law, 2005
9
The Dispossessed
A Diary of Despair by Rosamund McCullain Published: 2006 Pages: 88 Description This book tells Rosamund's story as she journeys through experiences of mental distress and bad treatment at the hands of the mental health system.
R. Mccullain, 2006
10
TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in ...
This book analyzes and assesses TVA's social experiment in modernization at the grassroots level, using population removal in the Norris Basin as a test case.
Michael J. McDonald, John Muldowny, 1981

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISPOSSESSED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dispossessed is used in the context of the following news items.
1
An Open Letter to American Muslims on Same-Sex Marriage
We don't know about you, but our faith teaches us to care for the weak and the marginalized, the poor and dispossessed, those who are ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Aspen Times Weekly: JR Was Here
As his massive black-and-white portraits fill a city, whether they're of the dispossessed in Brazil and France or of the non-celebrity faces of ... «Aspen Times, Jul 15»
3
Strikers get draw at Carolina in Kronsteiner's return
The goal was set up when Tiyi Shipalane dispossessed the ball from Strikers defender Ivan Guerrero. The match was delayed by an hour and ... «Sun Sentinel, Jul 15»
4
Internally Displace Persons: The Forgotten and Invisible Refugees
By contrast, those who are internally displaced often fare much worse, as they become truly dispossessed. Indeed, given state restrictions on ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
5
MSL: Pahang win to stay on top
The striker skipped past dispossessed Dzulazlan Ibrahim on the left side, entered the penalty area and after being given too much space by ... «ESPN FC, Jul 15»
6
Abdullah Hussein: alive in his vision
Another major novel, Naadar Log (The Dispossessed, 1997), dealt with the leaks from the Hamoodur Rehman Commission report — set up to ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
7
Refugees Are Humans Too
Every month, the equivalent of a San Diego joins the surplus army of the dispossessed. In 2014 alone, 14 million people became refugees. «Fair Observer, Jul 15»
8
Matthew d'Ancona: It's Osborne's turn to make his pitch for the Tory …
... Government”, to use the Chancellor's phrase today, and their claim, as Michael Gove put it in March, to be “warriors for the dispossessed.”. «Evening Standard, Jul 15»
9
Gary – The True Medel Liverpool Should Pursue This Window
He has shown tremendous ability holding on to the ball as well and has been dispossessed just once in every two appearance, which puts him ... «English Premier League Index - Opta Stats, Jul 15»
10
Why we Must be Allowed to Differ
It belongs to street children, to dispossessed farmers, to acid victims and survivors of sexual crimes. To inconvenient activists and NGOs that ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»

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