cert.

Nearby words

cerro de pasco, cerro de punta, cerro gordo, cerro tololo inter-american observatory, cert, cert., certain, certainly, certainty, certed, certes

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Examples from the Web for cert

And you cert'nly'll get sick schoolteachin' if yu' don't keep outdoors some.
The Virginian|Owen Wister
"I cert'n'y will," was Joe's opportune remark, and he was pleased to see that it caused the reluctant one to yield.
The Sport of the Gods|Paul Laurence Dunbar
Also if we shuld saye: a phrase of building, or an audice of shepe, as a cert homely felow dyd.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes|Richard Sherry
If we had a chance—and we had—of getting our Flannels last year, why isn't it a cert.
The Hill|Horace Annesley Vachell

He'll be beaten in the end, that's a cert, but he's putting up a bloody hard fight.
Combed Out|Fritz August Voigt

British Dictionary definitions for cert

cert

/ (sɜːt) /

noun

informal something that is a certainty, esp a horse that is certain to win a race (esp in the phrase a dead cert)

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