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Certain   /sˈərtən/   Listen
Certain

adjective
1.
Definite but not specified or identified.  "To a certain degree" , "Certain breeds do not make good pets" , "Certain members have not paid their dues" , "A certain popular teacher" , "A certain Mrs. Jones"
2.
Having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured.  Synonym: sure.  "Was sure (or certain) she had seen it" , "Was very sure in his beliefs" , "Sure of her friends"
3.
Established beyond doubt or question; definitely known.  "It is certain that they were on the bus" , "His fate is certain" , "The date for the invasion is certain"
4.
Certain to occur; destined or inevitable.  Synonym: sure.  "His fate is certain" , "In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes" , "He faced certain death" , "Sudden but sure regret" , "He is sure to win"
5.
Established irrevocably.  Synonym: sealed.
6.
Reliable in operation or effect.  Synonym: sure.  "A sure way to distinguish the two" , "Wood dust is a sure sign of termites"
7.
Exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance.  Synonym: sure.  "Be sure to lock the doors"



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"Certain" Quotes from Famous Books



... perhaps it was better. I got here a little before eight o'clock. All was clean and bright waiting for me. Papa and the servants were well; and all received me with an affection which should have consoled. The dogs seemed in strange ecstasy. I am certain they regarded me as the harbinger of others. The dumb creatures thought that as I was returned, those who had been so long absent were not ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... [Footnote 13: A certain amount of British folk-lore was brought back to Greece, according to Plutarch ('De defect. orac.' 2), by the geographer Demetrias of Tarsus about this time. He refers to the cavern of sleeping heroes, so familiar in our ...
— Early Britain--Roman Britain • Edward Conybeare
... story is the most naive form of the mystery story. It may contain a certain element of the supernatural—be tinged with mysticism—but its motive and the revelation thereof must be frankly materialistic—of the earth, earthy. In this respect it is very closely allied to the detective story. The model riddle ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various
... had returned; some had been wounded, and many had done brave deeds, but Tom's action had laid hold of the imagination of the people. To discover a German spy in Waterman, whom many in the town knew; to bring him to justice; to risk his life in order to render his country a service; to face almost certain death that he might obtain the plans which had been intended to help the enemy, ...
— Tommy • Joseph Hocking
... into the daylight of her knowledge, such a reaction of relief took place as, operating along with his deep natural humour and the comical circumstance of the case, gave him an ease and freedom of communication which he had never before enjoyed with her. Likewise there was a certain courage in the boy which, if his own natural disposition had not been so quiet that he felt the negations of her rule the less, might have resulted in underhand doings of a very different kind, possibly, ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald


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