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granted

verb
/ˈɡɹæntɪd/US/ˈɡɹɑːntɪd/UK

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of grant

    • He was granted a patent on his invention.

  2. Used to concede a point or to express acknowledgment or awareness, often before stating…

    Used to concede a point or to express acknowledgment or awareness, often before stating some contrasting or competing information; used as an expression of respect to the point in question.

    • He's a good student and usually does well. Granted, he did fail that one test, but I think there were good reasons for that.
    • "You haven't been a very good father." "Granted."

  3. used to mark the premise of a syllogistic argument

    • Granted that he has done nothing wrong, he should be set free.
    • Granted the lack of evidence, we can make no such conclusion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at granted. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at granted. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at granted

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA