"comprehend" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnd/ [UK], /kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnd/ [US] Audio: En-us-comprehend.ogg [US] Forms: comprehends [present, singular, third-person], comprehending [participle, present], comprehended [participle, past], comprehended [past]
Rhymes: -ɛnd Etymology: From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gʰed-}}, {{inh|en|enm|comprehenden}} Middle English comprehenden, {{der|en|la|comprehendere|t=to grasp}} Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), {{m|la|com-}} com-, {{m|la|prehendere|t=to seize}} prehendere (“to seize”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} comprehend (third-person singular simple present comprehends, present participle comprehending, simple past and past participle comprehended)
  1. (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-comprehend-en-verb-u2yBrre9
  2. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly. Translations (to understand): разбирам (razbiram) (Bulgarian), схващам (shvaštam) (Bulgarian), comprendre (Catalan), rozumět [imperfective] (Czech), begrijpen (Dutch), bevatten (Dutch), mõistma (Estonian), aru saama (Estonian), hoomama (Estonian), ymmärtää (Finnish), käsittää (Finnish), tajuta (Finnish), comprendre (French), capî (Friulian), verstehen (German), begreifen (German), erfassen (German), einsehen (German), 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fraþjan) (Gothic), κατανοώ (katanoó) (Greek), comprendere (Italian), capire (Italian), 解る (wakaru) (Japanese), 理解する (rikai suru) (Japanese), कळचे (kaḷce) (Konkani), intellegō (Latin), capio (Latin), video (Latin), mahazo (Malagasy), whēiro (Maori), whēiroiro (Maori), whekori (Maori), orotau (Maori), fatte (Norwegian), forstå (Norwegian), آڭلامق (anlamak) (Ottoman Turkish), pojmować [imperfective] (Polish), pojąć [perfective] (Polish), compreender (Portuguese), aypay (Quechua), înțelege (Romanian), понима́ть (ponimátʹ) (Russian), постигать (postigatʹ) (Russian), осознать (osoznatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), cumprèndhere (Sardinian), cumprènniri (Sicilian), capiri (Sicilian), comprender (Spanish), idrak etmek (Turkish), kavramak (Turkish), thấu hiểu (Vietnamese), deall (Welsh), -qonda (Zulu), -bona (Zulu)
    Sense id: en-comprehend-en-verb-3P8rxMB3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 74 Disambiguation of 'to understand': 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: comprehensibility, comprehensible, comprehension, comprehensive, comprehensiveness, comprise Translations (to cover): обхващам (obhvaštam) (Bulgarian), побирам (pobiram) (Bulgarian), zahrnovat [imperfective] (Czech), obsahovat [imperfective] (Czech), käsittää (Finnish), sisältää (Finnish), comprendre (French), umfassen (German), περιλαμβάνω (perilamváno) (Greek), comprendere (Italian), capio (Latin), dekke (Norwegian), obejmować [imperfective] (Polish), objąć [perfective] (Polish), compreender (Portuguese), cuprinde (Romanian), покрыва́ть (pokryvátʹ) (Russian), omfatta (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'to cover': 0 0

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          "word": "înțelege"
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          "roman": "postigatʹ",
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          "word": "постигать"
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          "roman": "osoznatʹ",
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          "word": "осознать"
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          "sense": "to understand",
          "word": "cumprèndhere"
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          "sense": "to understand",
          "word": "idrak etmek"
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          "word": "kavramak"
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          "sense": "to understand",
          "word": "thấu hiểu"
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          "sense": "to understand",
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          "sense": "to understand",
          "word": "-qonda"
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          "sense": "to understand",
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      "form": "comprehends",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "comprehending",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "comprehended",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "comprehended",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "comprehend (third-person singular simple present comprehends, present participle comprehending, simple past and past participle comprehended)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "comprehensibility"
    },
    {
      "word": "comprehensible"
    },
    {
      "word": "comprehension"
    },
    {
      "word": "comprehensive"
    },
    {
      "word": "comprehensiveness"
    },
    {
      "word": "comprise"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2009, page 9",
          "text": "In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To include, comprise; to contain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "include",
          "include"
        ],
        [
          "comprise",
          "comprise"
        ],
        [
          "contain",
          "contain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) To include, comprise; to contain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "grasp",
          "grasp"
        ],
        [
          "fully",
          "fully"
        ],
        [
          "thorough",
          "thorough"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛnd"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-comprehend.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/En-us-comprehend.ogg/En-us-comprehend.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/En-us-comprehend.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obhvaštam",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "обхващам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pobiram",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "побирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zahrnovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "obsahovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "käsittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "sisältää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "comprendre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "umfassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "perilamváno",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "περιλαμβάνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "comprendere"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "capio"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "dekke"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "obejmować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "objąć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "compreender"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "cuprinde"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pokryvátʹ",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "покрыва́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to cover",
      "word": "omfatta"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razbiram",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "разбирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "shvaštam",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "схващам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "comprendre"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "rozumět"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "begrijpen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "bevatten"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "mõistma"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "aru saama"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "hoomama"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "ymmärtää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "käsittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "tajuta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "comprendre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "capî"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "verstehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "begreifen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "erfassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "einsehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "fraþjan",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "katanoó",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "κατανοώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "comprendere"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "capire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "wakaru",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "解る"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rikai suru",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "理解する"
    },
    {
      "code": "kok",
      "lang": "Konkani",
      "roman": "kaḷce",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "कळचे"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "intellegō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "capio"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "video"
    },
    {
      "code": "mg",
      "lang": "Malagasy",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "mahazo"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "whēiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "whēiroiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "whekori"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "orotau"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "fatte"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "forstå"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "anlamak",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "آڭلامق"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "pojmować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "pojąć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "compreender"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "aypay"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "înțelege"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ponimátʹ",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "понима́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "postigatʹ",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "постигать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "osoznatʹ",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "осознать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "cumprèndhere"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "cumprènniri"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "capiri"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "comprender"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "idrak etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "kavramak"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "thấu hiểu"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "deall"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "-qonda"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "to understand",
      "word": "-bona"
    }
  ],
  "word": "comprehend"
}

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