said


Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Related to said: Edward Said

said

 (sĕd)
v.
Past tense and past participle of say.
adj. Law
Named or mentioned before; aforementioned: The party to the contract subsequently breached said contract.
Usage Note: The adjective said is used primarily in legal and business writing, where it is equivalent to aforesaid: the said tenant (named in a lease); said property. Outside of these specialized contexts said is usually unnecessary. Simply saying the tenant or the property will suffice.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

said

(sɛd)
adj
(Law) (prenominal) (in contracts, pleadings, etc) named or mentioned previously; aforesaid
vb
the past tense and past participle of say1

said

(ˈsɑːɪd)
n
(Islam) a variant of sayyid
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

said

(sɛd)

v.
1. pt. and pp. of say.
adj.
2. aforesaid; aforementioned: the said witness.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

said

(sed) verb
see say.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.said - being the one previously mentioned or spoken of; "works of all the aforementioned authors"; "said party has denied the charges"
same - same in identity; "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
Translations

said

[sed]
A. PT & PP of say
B. ADJdicho
the said animalsdichos animales
the said generaldicho general
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

said

pret, ptp of say
adj (form)besagt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

said

[sɛd]
1. pt & pp of say
2. adj (aforementioned) the saidil/la suddetto/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

said

a. pp. de to say, dicho; dicho-a, citado-a, antes mencionado.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
'If he meant lamb,' he said, querulously, 'why didn't he say "lamb", so's a feller could hear him?
'If people spoke distinct,' said the waiter, 'there wouldn't be half the trouble there is in the world.
And I dare say that he did know, and that you know what he said: please, therefore, to remind me of what he said; or, if you would rather, tell me your own view; for I suspect that you and he think much alike.
SOCRATES: And if he had said, Tell me what they are?--you would have told him of other colours which are colours just as much as whiteness.
I said likely we wouldn't, because I had heard say there warn't but about a dozen houses there, and if they didn't happen to have them lit up, how was we going to know we was passing a town?
"Tom Sawyer," I says, "I'll say it again as I've said it a many a time before: I ain't fitten to black your boots.
He said that the repayment of a debt is just, and in saying so he appears to me to be right.
While the servants were busied in providing materials, the surgeon, who imputed the backwardness which had appeared in Sophia to her fears, began to comfort her with assurances that there was not the least danger; for no accident, he said, could ever happen in bleeding, but from the monstrous ignorance of pretenders to surgery, which he pretty plainly insinuated was not at present to be apprehended.
This woman had also had a little school, which she kept to teach children to read and to work; and having, as I have said, lived before that in good fashion, she bred up the children she took with a great deal of art, as well as with a great deal of care.
"Well!" says the constable, "so far, it seems, he had grounds for what he said. When I took him into custody up in Holborn, he said you knew him.
There came a time, however, when the young men of the vicinity said: "Dat Johnson goil is a puty good looker." About this period her brother remarked to her: "Mag, I'll tell yeh dis!
I said to Anastatia before leaving home just now to come to you--of course the first friend I have seen on a subject so momentous to me, my dear Twemlow--I said to Anastatia, "We must work."'