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LEISURED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leisured mean?
• LEISURED (adjective)
The adjective LEISURED has 1 sense:
1. free from duties or responsibilities
Familiarity information: LEISURED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free from duties or responsibilities
Context example:
even the artist and the sculptor were not regarded...as leisured men
Similar:
idle (not in action or at work)
Context examples
Exactly, Watson. Here is the fruit of my leisured ease, the magnum opus of my latter years!
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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