find Definition

find
verb found, finding

1. To discover through search, enquiry, mental effort or chance.

Thesaurus: discover, detect, notice, observe, perceive, arrive at, discern, hit upon, uncover, expose, run across, run into, stumble upon, happen upon, come upon, come across.
2. To seek out and provide something.

Example: I'll find you a plumber
3. To realize or discover something.
4. To experience something as being (easy, difficult, etc).

Example: find it hard to express oneself
5. To consider; to think.

Thesaurus: judge, determine, decide.
6. To get or experience.

Example: find pleasure in reading
7. To become aware of something or someone.

Example: found her beside him
8. To succeed in getting (time, courage, money, etc for something).
9. To see or come across.

Example: a bird found only in Madagascar
10. To reach.

Example: find one's best form
tr & intr
11. law.
Said of a jury or court, etc: to decide on and deliver a specified verdict about (an accused person).
Example: found the accused innocent
Example: found that the accused was guilty
Example: found a verdict of guilty

noun

1. Something or someone that is found; an important discovery.

Thesaurus: bargain, acquisition, coup, bonanza, catch, discovery.

Idiom: all found

With food and housing provided.

Idiom: find it in oneself (find it in one's heart)

To be prepared (to do something hurtful, etc).

Idiom: find oneself

To find the role, etc that satisfies one.

Idiom: find oneself doing something

To discover or realize that one is doing it.
Example: found themselves agreeing

Idiom: find one's feet

To establish oneself confidently in a new situation.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon findan.

Phrasal Verb: find out about something

To discover or get information about it.

Phrasal Verb: find someone out

To detect them in wrongdoing; to discover the truth about them.