COULD meaning: Ability or possibility in past

We found 29 dictionaries that define the word could:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

could: Merriam-Webster
could: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
could: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
could: Collins English Dictionary
could: Vocabulary.com
COuld, Could, could, could: Wordnik
could: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
could: Wiktionary
could: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
could: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
could: Infoplease Dictionary
Could, could: Dictionary.com
could: Online Etymology Dictionary
could: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Could: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Could: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
could: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
Could: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
could: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
could: FreeDictionary.org
could: TheFreeDictionary.com
could: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
could: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

could: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

could: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

could: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Could: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  conditional of can
▸ verb:  Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).
▸ verb:  Used to politely ask for permission to do something.
▸ verb:  Used to politely ask for someone else to do something.
▸ verb:  Used to show the possibility that something might happen.
▸ verb:  Used to suggest something.
▸ noun:  Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

Similar:

might, would, coud, should, couldn, able, cannot, must, possibly, conceivably, more...

Opposite:

cannot, unable, incapable, powerless, impotent

Types:

might, would, should, could have, would have, should have, could have had, would have had, should have had, more...

Phrases:

could be, could have, could use, could care less, didn't trust as far as could throw, more...

Adjectives:

how, she, what, epistemic, baring

Colors:

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