TURNED OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turned out mean? 

• TURNED OUT (adjective)
  The adjective TURNED OUT has 1 sense:

1. dressed well or smartly

  Familiarity information: TURNED OUT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURNED OUT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dressed well or smartly

Context example:

the girls were well turned out and smart

Similar:

clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

So she took her pigs, said my aunt, to a foreign market; and a very bad market it turned out to be.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Though it has turned out so well for us, I do not like him at all.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Water has turned out to be common in their atmospheres.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

Now, eight years later, I can say that it turned out to be a brilliant move.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This turned out to be simple but important.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We shall enjoy him completely; every thing has turned out exactly as we could wish.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The answer, it turned out, was hidden in the rings.

(Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn, NASA)

That you were gone into the army, and she was afraid had—not turned out well.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As usual, the watches below and the hunters turned out for what promised sport.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“All has turned out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely that he will be back before evening.”

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