shared

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃɛːd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃɛɹd/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ʃeːd/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ʃeəd/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ʃiəd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ʃeɹd/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ʃɜː(ɹ)d/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
• Homophones: sheared (cheer–chair merger); shirred (fair–fur merger)

Verb

shared

1. simple past and past participle of share

Adjective

shared (not comparable)

1. Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.
   • 1981, Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune‎ (Science Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:

     "We are myth-killers, you and I, Moneo. That's the dream we share. I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies."

   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

Synonyms

• (multiple entities): common, mutual; see also Thesaurus:joint

Derived terms

• a worry shared is a worry halved
• shared appreciation mortgage
• shared card
• shared joy is double joy
• shared lane marking
• shared sorrow is half sorrow
• shared space
• shared taxi
• shared use path

Translations

used by multiple agents

Arabic: مُشْتَرَك (muštarak) Azerbaijani: ortaq Bashkir: уртаҡ (urtaq), берлектәге (berlektəge) Catalan: compartit Czech: sdílený Dutch: gedeeld (nl), gezamenlijk (nl), verdeeld (nl) Esperanto: komuna Finnish: jaettu (fi), yhteinen (fi) Georgian: საზიარო (saziaro), საერთო (saerto) German: gemeinsam (de), geteilt (de), verteilt (de) Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (gamains) Ingrian: yhtein Latin: consors, partiarius Plautdietsch: schoarich Polish: wspólny (pl), dzielony (z kimś), współdzielony Portuguese: compartilhado (pt) Romanian: distribuit (ro) m or n, împărțit (ro) m or n Russian: о́бщий (ru) (óbščij), совме́стный (ru) (sovméstnyj) Slovene: skúpen Spanish: compartido (es)

Anagrams

• Dahers, Dasher, Haders, Heards, Herdas, Rashed, Sheard, dasher, rashed, red ash, shader, sheard