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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Affirmed mean? 

• AFFIRMED (noun)
  The noun AFFIRMED has 1 sense:

1. thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1978

  Familiarity information: AFFIRMED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFIRMED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1978

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Instance hypernyms:

thoroughbred (a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares)

 Context examples 

I was a lusus naturae, she affirmed, as a village schoolmistress: she was sure my previous history, if known, would make a delightful romance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Under the storm of denunciation Brissenden complacently sipped his toddy and affirmed that everything the other said was quite true, with the exception of the magazine editors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“An’ of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them,” affirmed a second of the men.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"With our own eyes we saw it," Bim affirmed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"You jes' bet they will," Bill affirmed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This was in part confirmed by his aunt, who saw him at half past twelve o'clock, soon after his release, and affirmed that he was then as red as I was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had a large pair of bellows, with a long slender muzzle of ivory: this he conveyed eight inches up the anus, and drawing in the wind, he affirmed he could make the guts as lank as a dried bladder.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone, and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Py jingo! I t’ink so mineself,” Hans affirmed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Don't lie," he commanded, and the nod of her head affirmed his charge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)