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Definition: Lost |
LostAdjective1. No longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities". 2. Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented". 3. Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon". 4. Not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize". 5. Incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor". 6. Not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din". 7. Deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown". 8. No longer known; irretrievable; "a forgotten art"; "a lost art"; "lost civilizations". 9. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school". 10. : unable to function; without help. Noun1. People who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Lost \Lost\, adjective. [Prop. present participle of Old English losien. See Lose, transitive verb]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Military | In artillery and naval gunfire support, a spotting, or an observation used by a spotter or an observer to indicate that rounds fired by a gun or mortar were not observed. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Lost Generation refers to the ex-Red Guards in China. See Red Guards.The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Significant members included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein herself.
More generally, the term is being used for the generation of young people coming of age in the United States during and shortly after World War I. For this reason, the generation is sometimes known as the World War I Generation or the Roaring 20s Generation. In Europe, they are most often known as the Generation of 1914, named after the year World War I began. In France, the country in which many expatriates settled, they are called the Génération au Feu.
William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations list this generation's birth years as 1883 to 1900. Their typical grandparents were the Gilded Generation; their parents were the Progressive Generation and Missionary Generation. Their children were the G.I. Generation and Silent Generation; their typical grandchildren were Baby boomers.
Traits
The "Lost Generation" were said to be disillusioned by the senseless slaughter of the First World War, cynical, disdainful of the Victorian notions of morality and propriety of their elders. Like most attempts to pigeon-hole entire generations, this over-generalization is true for some individuals of the generation and not true of others.It was fairly common among members of this group to complain that American artistic culture lacked the breadth of European work - leading many members to spend large amounts of time in Europe - and/or that all topics worth treating in a literary work had already been covered. Nevertheless, this selfsame period saw an explosion in American literature and art, which is now often considered to include some of the greatest literary classics produced by American writers. This generation also produced the first flowering of jazz music, arguably the first distinctly American artform.
Celebreties
Sample members of the Lost Generation include the following:
- 1885 Sinclair Lewis (died 1951)
- 1885 George Patton (died 1945)
- 1888 Irving Berlin (immigrant; died 1989)
- 1890 Dwight D. Eisenhower (died 1969)
- 1891 Earl Warren (died 1974)
- 1891 Nicola Sacco (immigrant; died 1927)
- 1892 Reinhold Niebuhr (died 1971)
- 1892 Mae West (died 1980)
- 1893 Dorothy Parker (died 1967)
- 1894 Norman Rockwell (died 1978)
- 1895 J. Edgar Hoover (died 1972)
- 1895 Babe Ruth (died 1948)
- 1896 George Burns (died 1996)
- 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald (died 1940)
- 1897 Hal Haig Prieste (immigrant; died 2001)
- 1898 Paul Robeson (died 1976)
- 1899 Humphrey Bogart (died 1957)
- 1899 Al Capone (immigrant; died 1947)
- 1899 Jimmie Davis (died 2000)
- 1899 Ernest Hemingway (died 1961)
- 1900 Adlai Stevenson (died 1965)
- 1900 Cecil H. Green (immigrant; died 2003)
Cultural endowments
Cultural endowments of the Lost Generation include the following:
The Lost Generation produced two Presidents: Harry S Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. They held a plurality in the House of Representatives from 1937 to 1953, a plurality in the Senate from 1943 to 1959, and a majority of the Supreme Court from 1941 to 1967.
- The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
- The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
- Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)
- The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
- Monkey Business (film, The Marx Brothers)
- Creed of an Advertising Man (Bruce Barton)
- An American in Paris (George Gershwin)
- Ain't Misbehavin' (Duke Ellington)
- The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett; later a movie)
- The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
- The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
- The View from Eighty (Malcolm Cowley)
Prominent foreign-born peers of the Lost Generation included Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Charles Chaplin, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles de Gaulle, and Mao Zedong.
See also generation.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lost Generation."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
During World War II, Operation Lost was a seven-man Special Air Service patrol conducted in Brittany alongside Operation Dingson in June and July, 1944.These operations trained and armed local fighters and harassed the defenders as they tried to react to the Overlord landings. The Lost team was active from 23 June to 18 July.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Operation Lost."
Synonyms: LostSynonyms: at sea (adj), baffled (adj), befuddled (adj), bemused (adj), bewildered (adj), confounded (adj), confused (adj), deep in thought(p) (adj), disoriented (adj), forgotten (adj), helpless (adj), lost(p) (adj), mazed (adj), missed (adj), mixed-up (adj), preoccupied (adj), doomed (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: found (adj), saved (adj), won (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence | Adjective: absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence. |
Dejection | Disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au desespoir; in despair; lost. |
Inattention | Absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought, wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things, musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed; (attentive); daydreaming, in a reverie; Noun: off one's guard; (inexpectant); napping; dreamy; caught napping. |
Inexistence | Perished, annihilated; Verb: extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct; (dead). |
Pain | Unfortunate; (hapless); to be pitied, doomed, devoted, accursed, undone, lost, stranded; fey. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lost |
| Specialty definitions using "lost": All is lost ♦ contact lost ♦ lost head, lost hole, Lost Island ♦ What we Gave we Have, What we Spent we Had, What we Had we Lost. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lost": Waif. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Both my wife and daughter think I'm this gigantic loser and they're right, I have lost something (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) I had lost my wife in childbirth (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Why am I telling you this, Mr. Ansel? Because we've all lost our children (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) It's a shame we lost him to the other side (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) | |
Lyrics | Lost and all alone (Lost Without Your Love; performing artist: BREAD) I get lost in your eyes (Lost In Your Eyes; performing artist: Debbie Gibson) It's midnight at the lost and found (Midnight At The Lost & Found; performing artist: Meat Loaf) You lost that lovin' feeling, ("You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"; performing artist: The Righteous Brothers) Now who would have guessed Milton's paradise lost could be found (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC) | |
Clever | When wealth is lost, nothing is lost: when health is lost, something is lost: when character is lost, all is lost. (references; author: German Proverb) If You Can Read This, I've Lost My Trailer. (references; author: unknown) Old folks say, "If all is not lost, where is it? (references; author: unknown) Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. (references; author: unknown) I haven't lost my mind. I know exactly where I left it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | They have left the thriftshop, and lost both their theatre tickets and the volume of valuable licenses and coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Land of the Lost (1974) Lost in the Stars (1974) The Lost Manuscript (1974) Lost in the Bush (1973) The Town That Lost a Miracle (1972) | |
Song Titles | I Lost It (performing artist: Kenny Chesney) Lost In Emotion (performing artist: Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam) Lost In Space (performing artist: The Nick Atoms) Lost Weekend Las Vegas (performing artist: Wally Pleasant) SINCE I LOST MY BABY (performing artist: Temptations ) | |
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![]() | Flooding of low-lying areas at Holland Cliffs Shores by extreme high tides. Land is being lost at a rate of 1" per year in the Chesapeake Bay region due to combination of sea level rise and subsidence caused by lowering water tables. As population grows, so does demand for fresh water causing further subsidence, making events such as this increasingly common. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Shrine to _____ Williams who lost his life during Navy Antarctic operations in the 1950's when his tractor broke through the sea ice and he was drowned. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | A lost blue heron hitching a ride at sea. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | "They that go down to the sea in ships 1623 -1923". The Fishermen's Memorial at Gloucester commemorating the thousands of fishermen who have lost their lives from this port. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | The Seamen's Memorial Tower commemorating fishermen who have lost their lives at sea. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Hake lie near the base of a lost "ghost" lobster trap. Urophycis. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
![]() | Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship BOWEN, named for William Bowen who lost his life attempting to save three drowning shipmates from the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship SURVEYOR on October 4, 1927, in Resurrection Bay, Alaska. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Kansas water quality tree planting along a riparian area lost to flooding. Kansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
![]() | Farmland continues to be lost to suburban development in rapidly growing Forsyth County. Credit: Bob Nichols. | ![]() | During the Rabbit Creek Fire large quantities of Lodge Pole Pine, Larch, Douglas Fir, and Sub-Alpine Fir were lost. Credit: USDA. |
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| "A Prayer For Lost Ones" by Neil Cummins Commentary: "Figurine standing guard." | "Lost in Sydney" by Marty Walker Commentary: "Lost person in Sydney. If you look carefully you can see the Harbour Bridge in the distance." |
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| Fog horn, lighthouse; shipping; ocean; ship; fog; dark; lost at sea; storm. | Lose; losing; lost; game; video game; arcade. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Count Leo Tolstoy | We lost because we told ourselves we lost. |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. |
Henry Brooks Adams | A friend in power is a friend lost. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Not lost, but gone before. |
Publilius Syrus | Opportunity is lost by deliberation. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | How much of human life is lost in waiting. |
Thomas Middleton | There's no hate lost between us. |
Titus Vespasianus | Friends, I have lost a day. |
William Wordsworth | Lost in a gloom of uninspired research. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | The peoples right is equally invaded, and their liberty lost, whether they are made slaves to any of their own, or a foreign nation; and in this lies the injury, and against this only have they the right of defence. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It is not therefore to be lost sight of in the further consideration of this subject. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In contact with German social conditions, this French literature lost all its immediate practical significance, and assumed a purely literary aspect. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany recognises the right of the Allied and Associated Powers to the replacement, ton for ton (gross tonnage) and class for class, of all merchant ships and fishing boats lost or damaged owing to the war. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | All my public life I have worked for a strong France and I never lost faith in her destiny, even in the darkest hours. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | The Chancellor raised his hands and eyebrows, lost in admiration |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters and had lost the power for ever |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She had lost her modesty, she was losing her coquetry |
The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | All that is gold does not glitter, Not all who wander are lost. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | You would be lost in the dark |
Brighton Beach Memoirs | Neil Simon | Eugene: Why don't you just say you lost the money |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | While we reason here A royal battle might be won and lost. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I lost my land, a single tractor took my land |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | My greatest apprehension was for my eyes, which I should have infallibly lost, if I had not suddenly thought of an expedient |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Treatment involves replacing lost fluids and electrolytes. (references) | |
Laser photocoagulation usually does not restore lost vision. (references) | ||
Sometimes cell damage can be repaired and some lost skills regained. (references) | ||
Business | Metropolitan press lost 3.2 percent. (references) | |
The vast majority, 32 percent is lost through leakage. (references) | ||
It has not been all lost for American companies though. (references) | ||
Children | Moldova | One orphanage director lost his job for selling the food earmarked for the children on the black market. (references) |
Burundi | Many of the victims in the civil war are children, and many children have lost family members and witnessed violence. (references) | |
Taiwan | Courts are authorized to appoint guardians for children who have either lost their parents or whose parents are deemed unfit. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Egypt | Four publications lost the right to publish. (references) |
South Africa | Permits that are lost, stolen, or destroyed are not renewed. (references) | |
Georgia | The owners brought suit against Gagoshidze, but they lost their case in Ajara regional court. (references) | |
Economic History | Sweden | Sweden started to regain lost market share. (references) |
Guyana | Firms reported that accounts lost were difficult to regain. (references) | |
Albania | Other companies have lost licenses without any prior notice or due process. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | He lost an eye as a result of the shooting. (references) |
Bangladesh | Selim lost his seat in the October 1 election. (references) | |
China | He lost several teeth and remains in poor health. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | In 1996 a suit was brought by Orang Asli Temuans who lost land during the construction of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport highway. (references) |
India | In the Jharkhand area, tribal people complain that they have been relegated to unskilled mining jobs, have lost their forests to industrial construction, and have been displaced by development projects. (references) | |
Botswana | They remain economically and politically marginalized; they have lost access to their traditional land in fertile regions of the country and are vulnerable to exploitation by their non-Basarwa neighbors. (references) | |
Minorities | Morocco | Berber cultural groups contend that Berber traditions and the Berber language (actually three dialects, Tamazight, Tachelhit and Tarifit) are being lost rapidly. (references) |
Bhutan | The law permits residents who lost citizenship under the 1985 law to apply for naturalization if they can prove residence during the 15 years prior to that time. (references) | |
Nigeria | Northern Muslims, who lost previously held positions within the military hierarchy, accused the Government of favoring Christians from the Middle Belt for those positions. (references) | |
Political Economy | Lesotho | Thousands of jobs were lost, and many entrepreneurs went bankrupt. (references) |
AUSTRIA | In 2000, the euro, and with it the Austrian schilling, lost considerable ground against the dollar. (references) | |
NETHERLANDS | In 2000, some 9,400 labor days were lost due to industrial disputes compared with 75,800 days in 1999. (references) | |
Political Rights | Saint Kitts and Nevis | The PAM lost its one seat in the 2000 election. (references) |
Taiwan | The KMT, which lost the legislative majority for the first time, won 68 seats. (references) | |
Fiji | With these events, citizens lost the right to change their government peacefully. (references) | |
Trade | Italy | Italian firms indicate that some American suppliers are too rigid in their payment terms and have thus lost business to other suppliers because of their rigidity. (references) |
Netherlands | This will be forfeited in the event the products are not re-exported in a timely manner, goods are lost, stolen, destroyed, or carnet certificates are not properly validated. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | On July 1, consumer goods importers lost their access to the very preferential commercial exchange rate, and were moved to a new, fixed exchange booth rate for their transactions. (references) | |
Travel | Peru | Prior registration will facilitate the replacement of a lost or stolen U.S. passport. (references) |
Russia | Also be alert to scams on the street or in stations involving money changing or lost or found money. (references) | |
Chad | Avoid alcoholic beverages and (for some) increase salt intake in food to replace what is lost in perspiration. (references) | |
Women | Qatar | The husbands then inform their wives that the wives have lost their former citizenship. (references) |
Ghana | The CHRAJ also ordered Ghana Airways to reinstate the dismissed flight attendant, reimburse her for all lost wages and benefits, and pay her 1 year's salary as compensation. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Of those seven cases, five either were not accepted for trial because the prosecutors did not feel there was sufficient evidence, or were lost in court; two cases remained pending at year's end. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Denmark | In 2000, 124,000 workdays were lost due to strikes. (references) |
Japan | During 1999 87,000 workdays involving 26,000 employees were lost to strikes. (references) | |
Hong Kong | There were 5 strikes during 2000, which resulted in 934 lost workdays; in 1999 there were 3 strikes. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they do? They were not hot To hazard such disaster; They dared not close an eye -- dared not See better than their master. Seeing them lacrymose and glum, A leech consoled the weepers: He spread small rags with liquid gum And covered half their peepers. The court all wore the stuff, the flame Of royal anger dying. That's how court-plaster got its name Unless I'm greatly lying. Naramy Oof |
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Donald Rumsfeld | Well, I guess the most important thing I can say is that it's a terrible tragedy and our heart goes out to the families and the friends of those fine people. We lost some Afghans also in that same incident. |
John Hartmann | Look, David, I know you're counting on me to play a key role in your hollow charade, but I'm afraid it's a lost cause. |
Mark Shields | Congressman Watts, as you know, the Republicans have lost seats in the last three elections. The nation is in a recession. The surplus is shrinking by the hour. Deficits are returning. Unemployment is up. |
Paul Harvey | I certainly hope we won't think of future wars in terms of marching boys with bayonets. Those weapons have lost our last three wars. |
Rosemary Altea | My money is made from books and lectures. And I'm in a really fortunate position. I also have a priority list, which is for people who have lost their children, and that's where I'm at the most. |
Rush Limbaugh | The feminists really lost out forever when the ERA never went anywhere, and they've been bitter ever since. |
Sally Jessy Raphael | We lost them. We lost the Sally viewer. And you can't snap people's heads around, an audience. You can't do one type of show and then the next week you're doing another or, which was worse, what we were doing. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | To have awaited a previous and special sanction by law would have lost occasions which might not be retrieved. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Much time is lost, much unnecessary expense incurred, and much public property wasted under the present arrangement. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | In addition, I recommended insurance benefits to replace part of the earnings lost through temporary sickness and permanent disability. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I am always an optimist, but we must make up for lost time. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Last week the Senate lost a good and honest man, Lee Metcalf of Montana. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Seven thousand acres of farmland and open space are lost every day. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. |
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| "Lost" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 62.61% of the time. "Lost" is used about 14,471 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 62.61% | 9,059 | 1,053 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 24.32% | 3,519 | 2,764 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.07% | 1,892 | 4,520 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14,471 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lost": all is lost ♦ be lost ♦ be lost in a reverie ♦ be lost in admiration ♦ be lost in admiration of ♦ be lost in deep thought ♦ be lost in thought ♦ be lost on ♦ be lost to shame ♦ contact lost ♦ done forpredicate kaputpredicate goneprenominal lost finishedpredicate ♦ get lost ♦ have lost ♦ have lost one's wind ♦ i am lost ♦ i lost my way ♦ irretrievably lost ♦ it lost him his job ♦ it was lost on him ♦ i've lost my bearings ♦ labour disputes:time lost ♦ like a lost soul ♦ long lost ♦ lost and found ♦ lost and found department ♦ lost and found property ♦ lost call ♦ lost cause ♦ lost city ♦ Lost Creek ♦ lost head ♦ Lost Hills ♦ lost in ♦ lost in admiration ♦ lost in dreams ♦ lost in iniquity ♦ lost in the noise ♦ lost in the underflow ♦ lost in the wood ♦ lost in thought ♦ lost labor ♦ lost labour ♦ Lost Lake ♦ lost line ♦ Lost motion ♦ Lost Nation ♦ lost property ♦ lost property department ♦ lost property office ♦ lost propriety ♦ Lost River ♦ Lost Springs ♦ lost time ♦ lost to ♦ lost to shame ♦ lost traffic ♦ lost Tribes ♦ lost village ♦ lost wax casting ♦ lost without trace ♦ make up for lost time ♦ make up for the lost sleep ♦ no love lost between ♦ one who has lost all in a fire ♦ recover lost ground ♦ regain lost ground ♦ sell at lost ♦ she has lost her roses ♦ you've lost me. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lost": lost-and-found, lost-bottle, lost-even, lost-in-cloud, lost-in-house, lost-in-my-muse, lost-in-the-crowd, lost-in-the-wood, lost-looking, lost-luggage, Lost-macmillan, lost-ness, lost-property, lost-time, lost-wax. | |
Ending with "lost": little-girl-lost, long-lost. | |
Containing "lost": sorry-and-lost-without-her, won-lost record. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
golden sun lost age | 1,180 | lost city | 209 |
lost money | 1,104 | lost treasure | 207 |
age golden lost sun through walk | 1,003 | the lost colony | 179 |
lost world | 651 | lost in paradise | 174 |
lost | 578 | lost dog | 170 |
lost in space | 565 | lost surf board | 169 |
lost love | 494 | lost viking | 166 |
lost and found | 487 | lost at sea | 165 |
paradise lost | 483 | lost prophets | 164 |
the lost boy | 394 | lost city of atlantis | 161 |
lost friend | 390 | lost passport | 161 |
recovering lost file | 331 | lost social security card | 159 |
lost relative | 280 | lost book of the bible | 151 |
lost kingdom | 274 | lost pet | 147 |
lost and delirious | 274 | age golden lost rom sun | 144 |
land of the lost | 256 | raider of the lost ark | 138 |
2 kingdom lost | 246 | lost love quote | 137 |
age cheat golden lost sun | 245 | lost highway | 136 |
lost love poem | 234 | lost in love | 129 |
lost password | 234 | find lost friend | 124 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "lost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verloor (lose), verdwaal (lose one's way). (various references) | |
Albanian | pr e pp e foljes loose, i zhytur (abstracted, deep, dipped, immersed, intent, plunged, rapt, submerged, sunk, sunken), i zhdukur (defunct, evaporated, extinct, missing, vanished), i rrënuar (decrepit, desolate, dilapidated, disreputable, effete, goner, impoverished, ramshackle, tumble down, tumbledown, up the spout), i përhumbur (abstracted, haunted, wandering), i humbur (dupe, faraway, forfeit, gone, lorn, loser, losing, missing, stray, strayed, waste), humbur, humbën, e çuar dëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | فقيد (dead), ضائِع (miserable), يائس (despairing, desperate, hopeless), مفقود (absent, missing, wanting), ضال (aberrant, astray, errata, erratic, rogue, stray, wandering), ضائع (godforsaken, gone, missing, up the spout, wasted), خاسر. (various references) | |
Basque | galduta. (various references) | |
Breton | kollet, dihentet, c'hollet. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който се е загубил, всецяло отдаден (heart-whole), отчаян (agonized, despairing, desperate, distressed, downcast, down-hearted, exanimate, last ditch, miserable), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, deranged, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly), загубен (reprobate), безпомощен (feckless, helpless, shiftless, silly, stranded, unable), потънал (deep, immersed, sunk, sunken), изчезнал (extinct), изгубен (gone, missing, stray). (various references) | |
Catalan | perdut. (various references) | |
Chinese | 迷 (bewilder, confused, crazy about, enthusiast, fan), 失去. (various references) | |
Croatian | izgubio (lose, lose be lost). (various references) | |
Czech | ztracený (forlorn, irretrievable, lorn). (various references) | |
Danish | tabte, tabt, sidste lag uobserveret, mistet. (various references) | |
Dutch | verloren, vervlogen (last), verdwaald, kwijt. (various references) | |
Esperanto | vojerarinta, perdita, perdis, perdi“is. (various references) | |
Estonian | kaotasin, kaotanud, eksinud. (various references) | |
Farsi | مفقود (Absent), منحرف (Aberrant, Amiss, Astray, Awry, Deviant, Devious, Hellbent, Oblique, Perverse, Pervert, Skew), زیان دیده , ضایع , ازدست رفته , شکست خورده گمراه . (various references) | |
Finnish | mennyttä kalua (gone for good), kadotettu (damned), hukkaan joutunut, hukannut (have lost), hävinnyt (missing), eksynyt (stray). (various references) | |
Flemish | verloren, verdwaald, kwijt. (various references) | |
French | perdu (lonely), perdus. (various references) | |
French Canadian | perdus, perdu. (various references) | |
Galician | perdido, perdín (I lost). (various references) | |
German | verloren (astray, doomed, forlorn, gone, irrecoverable, irredeemable, prodigal, vain, wasted). (various references) | |
Greek | έχασα, σωρεία (heap), χασούρα (loss), χαμένοσ (departed, gone, goner), αόρ. του lose. (various references) | |
Guarani | akañy (I lost). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | pèdi (have lost). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכולה (atrophic, container, ended), אובד (stray), אבוד (forfeiture, gone, hopeless, loss, missing, ruin, waste), אבד (be lost, perishable), נאבד. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lemarad vmiről (to lose), lekésik vmiről (to be late for sg, to lose), vesztettem, veszít (lose, lose out, sank, sunk, to lose, to lose out, to sink), vereséget szenved (lose, to be worsted, to lose), nem megfigyelhetõ (crested), nem észlelt, kikap (grab, to get it in the neck, to lose), elvesztett, elveszteget (lose, to barter away, to lose, to slather, to waste), elveszett (bushed, gone, lorn, missing, to be gone, to be missing, undone), elveszít (forfeit, lose, mislay, shed, to concede, to forfeit, to lose, to shed), elpocsékol (to cast away, to fool away, to lose, to pass away, to slather, to waste), elmulaszt (default, Miss, to default, to lose, to miss, to omit, to pass up). (various references) | |