return

Pronunciation: [ri'tә:n]

Average Rank: 607

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

n. 回来, 返回, 来回票, 归还, 报答, 利润率, 报告书 a. 返回的, 回程的, 报答的, 反向的, 重现的, 复原的 vi. 返回, 归还, 回来 vt. 归还, 还, 回报, 产生, 反射, 报告, 申报, 退回 [计] 返回

Detailed Explanations:
  • n. a coming to or returning home
  • n. the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
  • n. the act of going back to a prior location
  • n. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk ielts
Word Forms:
Past: returned
Past Participle: returned
Present Participle: returning
Plural: returns
3rd Person: returns

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#426

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 95.7% (Top 95.7% most frequent)
95.7%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#1058

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 89.4% (Top 89.4% most frequent)
89.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#337

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 96.6% (Top 96.6% most frequent)
96.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.

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