sold

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səʊld/

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  • (Estuary English) IPA^(key): [sɒʊ(ɫ)d]
  • (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /sɛlt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /soʊld/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /soʊld/, [soɫd]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /səʉld/, [sɔʊɫd]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /sɐʉld/, [sɒʊɫd], [sɔːɫd]
• Rhymes: -əʊld

sold

1. simple past and past participle of sell

sold (comparative more sold, superlative most sold)

1. (informal) Convinced, won over.^[1]
   • 2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it?

From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier and Danish sold (via Low German). Doublet of sol, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.

sold

1. (obsolete) salary; military pay^[2]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But were your will her sold to entertaine

   • 1601, William Barlow, A Defense of the Articles of the Protestant Religion in answer to a libell lately cast abroad:

     Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers.

• DLOs, LODs, LoDs, OSDL, Olds, dols, lods, olds

From Old Norse sáld, from Proto-Germanic *sēdlą (“sieve”).

sold n (singular definite soldet, plural indefinite sold)

1. sieve

From Middle Low German solt.

sold

1. a wage, especially one paid to mercenaries

• “sold” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French solde.

sold n (plural solduri)

1. (finance) balance