Showing results for "bought"

• past tense form of buy.
• past participle of buy.

bought

American  

[bawt] / bɔt /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of buy.

---

adjective

1. South Midland and Southern U.S. store-bought.

bought British  

/ bɔːt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of buy

---

adjective

1. purchased from a shop; not homemade

bought Idioms  

1. see under buy.

---

Other Word Forms

• unbought
  adjective
• well-bought
  adjective

---

Etymology

Origin of bought

First recorded before 900, for the adjective for an earlier sense

---

Compare meaning

How does bought compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• bought vs. brought

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

bought

She hasn’t yet bought a Hermès handbag for her own closet, but enjoys feeling like she owns dozens of them through her investment in Luxus’s second fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Was that a conscious choice you made when you bought the S&P 500?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

I’ll add to that: It’s impossible to make an anti-Godzilla film when we’ve all bought tickets to watch the big lizard smash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Barbara Stevens, now 80, bought her two-bedroom council flat in Kentish Town, north London, through Right to Buy for around £35,000.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

With no new shipments coming in, people bought up everything we had in stock, even the winkeldochters, the “shop-daughters,” merchandise that had lain around so long it seemed part of the furniture.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---