lost

• los'
• loss

From Middle English loste, losede (preterite) and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed (past participle), from Old English losode (preterite) and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose +‎ -t.

• enPR: lŏst, Rhymes: -ɒst
  • IPA^(key): /lɒst/ (Received Pronunciation, Canada)
  • IPA^(key): /lɔst/ (Standard Southern British, West Country)

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  • IPA^(key): /lɔst/ (Australia)
  • IPA^(key): [lɔ̟st] (New Zealand)
  • IPA^(key): /lɔsʈ/ (South Asia)

• enPR: lôst (lot–cloth split), Rhymes: -ɔːst
  • IPA^(key): /lɔːst/ (UK, dated)
  • IPA^(key): /lɔst/ (US, without the cot–caught merger)

• enPR: läst (father–bother merger), Rhymes: -ɑːst
  • IPA^(key): /lɑst/ (General American, cot–caught merger, Atlantic Canada)

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• • IPA^(key): /lɑsʈ/ (South Asia)
    • Homophone: last (trap–bath split)

lost

1. simple past and past participle of lose

lost (comparative loster or more lost, superlative lostest or most lost)

1. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.

   The children were soon lost in the forest.

2. In an unknown location; unable to be found.

   Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.

3. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.

   an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd

4. Parted with; no longer held or possessed.

   a lost limb; lost honour

5. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.

   a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit; no time should be lost

6. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.

   a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     They struck me also as being of surpassing interest as representing, probably with studious accuracy, the last rites of the dead as practised among an utterly lost people, and even then I thought how envious some antiquarian friends of my own at Cambridge would be if ever I found an opportunity of describing these wonderful remains to them.

7. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.

   lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour

8. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.

   to be lost in thought

• LTOs, OSLT, OTLs, STOL, lots, slot, tols

Cognate with Welsh llost, Cornish lost, Gaulish losto-, from Proto-Celtic *lustā, from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to divide, split”), possibly related to Old Norse ljósta (“to strike”), Proto-Germanic *leustaną.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔst]

lost m (plural lostoù)

1. A tail.
2. (informal) a cock, a penis.

   Ha ma lost bras 'zo bet troc'het

   And my big penis was cut off (from a Breton bawdy song)

From Middle Cornish lost, from Proto-Brythonic *llost, from Proto-Celtic *lustā, from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to divide, split”), possibly related to Old Norse ljósta (“to strike”), Proto-Germanic *leustaną. Cognate with Welsh llost, Breton lost, Gaulish losto-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔst]

lost m (plural lostow)

1. tail
2. queue
3. (informal) a cock, a penis.

lost

1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative of lostya
2. second-person singular imperative of lostya

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• Rhymes: -ɔst

lost

1. inflection of lossen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

lost

1. superlative degree of los

• slot, stol

• IPA^(key): /loːst/

lost

1. inflection of losen:
   1. second/third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

Borrowed from English lost.

• IPA^(key): /lɔst/

lost (strong nominative masculine singular loster, comparative loster, superlative am lostesten)

1. (slang) clueless, confused; lost; vain

   Der Typ da hinten in der letzten Reihe ist echt komplett lost.

   That guy back there in the last row is actually so clueless.

• “lost” in Duden online
• “lost”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔst]

lost n (genitive singular losts, nominative plural lost)

1. shock

• raflost

• “lost” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)