take part
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.54 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He declined to take part in the meeting because he did not feel he had anything to add."
- "I listened to a discussion in which she took part."
- "Those who took part in the Smell Survey faced two major challenges—the first, to detect the odors described below; the second, to identify them correctly."
- "They are killed, tortured, made to take part in the fighting, banished from their homes."
- "Thus the revolution is that one can speak about an access to digital culture within the right to take part in cultural life."
- "So didst thou love man, that thou wouldest take part with him of his misery, that he might take part with thee of thy blessedness."
Etymology
From Middle English taken part, a calque of Latin participō. Compare partake, German teilnehmen, Finnish ottaa osaa.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: taken part, participō