could

Speech parts

1. could - Noun

2. could - Verb

Meaning

of Can

Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Meuse will can may even able might allow likely also ability authority going perhaps capable
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Antonyms

canna must impossibility I can't Cannae failed
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Phrases with the word

If These Walls Could Talk I could eat a horse If Looks Could Kill could not could I see the menu, please one could hear a pin drop

Anagrams

cloud cludo

Examples

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. John Chrysostom

We should try to live in such way that if the Gospels were lost, they could be re-written by looking at us. Anthony of Sourozh

If people's hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world. Nikola Tesla

One idiot threw a stone in the well, thousand wise people could not get it out. Armenian Proverb

If the young only knew; if the old only could. French Proverb

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Jewish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

couhage Couillard couis could be could be written on the back of a postage stamp could care fewer