save
/seɪv/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.14 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She was saved from drowning by a passer-by."
- "We were able to save a few of our possessions from the house fire."
- "Turn out the light Don't try to save me You may be wrong for all I know But you may be right"
- "One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination."
- "Thou hast[…]quitted all to save / A world from utter loss."
- "IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE You often hear a new policy or procedure justified by the specious idea that "If it saves the life of just one (insert here 'child' or 'American soldier'), it will be worth it." Well, maybe not. Maybe a closer look would show that the cost in time, money or inconvenience would be much too high to justify merely saving one life. What's wrong with looking at it like that? Governments and corporations make those calculations all the time."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-der. Proto-Italic *salawos Latin salvus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin salvō Latin salvāre Old French sauverbor. Middle English saven English save From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”). Displaced native Old English nerian.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /seɪv/
- British English: /seɪv/
Usage
Inflected Forms
saves (present, singular)
saving (participle, present)
saved (participle, past)
saved (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
saved (first person, past)
savest (archaic, present)
saved (past, second person)
savedst (archaic, past)
saveth (archaic, present)
saved (past, singular)