GRANTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does granted mean? 

• GRANTED (adjective)
  The adjective GRANTED has 1 sense:

1. acknowledged as a supposition

  Familiarity information: GRANTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acknowledged as a supposition

Synonyms:

given; granted

Context example:

given the engine's condition, it is a wonder that it started

Similar:

acknowledged (recognized or made known or admitted)

 Context examples 

You appear to take it for granted that, although the door was forced, the robber never got in.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You appear to me, he said, at last, to be taking matters too much for granted.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The honour was readily granted, and he then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You know I granted the reality of matter only in order to make myself intelligible to your understanding.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A baby is a miracle gift. Pregnancy can’t be taken for granted.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It may also include granted permission(s) to perform a certain activity or hold possession of a specified thing.

(Investigator Official Credentials, NCI Thesaurus)

The relative importance granted to something.

(Importance Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

This Assurance Of Compliance, when granted, is called a Federalwide Assurance.

(Federal Wide Assurance, NCI Thesaurus)

When his request was granted he set out on his way, and one day came to a pond, where he saw three fishes caught in the reeds and gasping for water.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)