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Shared

adjective

1.

Have in common; held or experienced in common. "A shared interest in philately"

2.

Distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose. Synonyms: divided, divided up, shared out.

Share

verb

(past & past part. shared; pres. part. sharing)

1.

Have in common. "The two countries share a long border"

2.

Use jointly or in common.

3.

Have, give, or receive a share of. Synonyms: partake, partake in.

4.

Give out as one's portion or share. Synonyms: apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out.

5.

Communicate.

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"Shared" Quotes from Famous Books

... practice of hunting some species of rude agriculture, they still follow, with respect to the soil and the fruits of the earth, the analogy of their principal object. As the men hunt, so the women labour together; and, after they have shared the toils of the seed time, they enjoy the fruits of the harvest in common. The field in which they have planted, like the district over which they are accustomed to hunt, is claimed as a property by the nation, but is not parcelled in lots ...

— An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition • Adam Ferguson, L.L.D.

... man shared the same opinion— it was satisfactory to know that Mrs. Lester's male visitors who called at the unconventional hour of 11:30 p. m. were shown out so speedily. Innesmore Mansions were ...

— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy

... regarded collectively under the name of 'Low Countries by the Sea'—had in most respects the character of outskirts. The authority of the German emperors had for some centuries been little more than imaginary. Holland and Zealand hardly shared the dawning sense of a national German union. They had too long looked to France in matters political. Since 1299 a French-speaking dynasty, that of Hainault, had ruled Holland. Even the house of Bavaria that succeeded it about the middle of the fourteenth ...

— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga

... did not pounce upon and punish us for. Some were detained, some were set to impositions, some were flogged, some were reduced to bread and water, some had most if not all of their worldly goods confiscated. Even Hawkesbury shared the general fate, and for a whole week all Stonebridge House groaned as it had never ...

— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... already been described. The youngest girl, Christiana, was a pretty little dove-eyed, flaxen-haired child, between four and five years old, and shared the fate of most younger children, being very much caressed, and not a ...

— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

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