DEALT
What does "DEALT" mean?
Past tense and past participle of 'deal': to have distributed, handled, or done business.
Meanings
- Distributed cards to players in a game. She dealt each player five cards and set the deck aside.
- Handled or coped with a situation or person. He dealt with the complaint calmly and the customer left satisfied.
- Did business or traded, often in a specified commodity. The shop dealt in rare coins for over forty years.
- Delivered or administered, as a blow or a setback. The defeat dealt a serious blow to their championship hopes. figurative
Word origin
Past tense of 'deal', from Old English 'dǣlan' 'to divide, share', from Proto-Germanic 'dailijaną', related to 'dole' and German 'teilen'.
Remember it
DEALT keeps the 'eal' of DEAL but trades the trailing sound for a hard T - the deal is done.
A little poem
The cards fall where the dealer planned,
but you still choose to play your hand.
couplet
Wordplay
- The poker champion turned therapist - now he's great at the hands he's dealt, in every sense.
What it teaches
You rarely choose the hand you're dealt; the whole game is in how you play it.
Quick facts
What does DEALT mean?
Past tense and past participle of 'deal': to have distributed, handled, or done business.
Is DEALT a valid word?
Yes — DEALT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is DEALT?
DEALT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does DEALT come from?
Past tense of 'deal', from Old English 'dǣlan' 'to divide, share', from Proto-Germanic 'dailijaną', related to 'dole' and German 'teilen'.
What can DEALT teach us?
You rarely choose the hand you're dealt; the whole game is in how you play it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.