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See Also:

• past participle of build.
• past tense form of build.

built

American  

[bilt] / bɪlt /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of build.

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adjective

1. Informal.

   1. of sound or sturdy construction.

      These cars are really built.

   2. having a good physique or figure.

      That lifeguard is really built!

2. Nautical. noting any member or part of a vessel assembled from pieces.

   built frame; built spar.

built British  

/ bɪlt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of build

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built Idioms  

1. see made (built) to order; not built that way; Rome wasn't built in a day. Also see under build.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• well-built
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of built

First recorded in 1560–70, for the adjective

Example Sentences

Dorothy Day built it into the Catholic Worker movement.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2026

Tonopah, built by the mining industry around 1900 and depleted as the gold, silver, lead and mercury waned, is a remote way station about halfway between Reno and Las Vegas.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026

They hired consultants, studied reports and by last year arrived at a conclusion: As many as 155 apartments and condos could be built there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026

This leaves the Crimea bridge -- built by Moscow -- as one of the peninsula's few supply links to Russia.

From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026

He built a hut of driftwood logs and good strong branches, with a palm-thatched roof and a hard dirt floor.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr