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Lost

Definition: Lost

Lost

Adjective

1. 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.

Noun

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Lost

DomainDefinition

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Lost Generation

(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:

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.

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."

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Operation Lost

(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."

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Synonyms: Lost

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Lost

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Lost

Specialty definitions using "lost": All is lostcontact lostlost head, lost hole, Lost IslandWhat we Gave we Have, What we Spent we Had, What we Had we Lost. (references)
Etymologies containing "lost": Waif. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lost

DomainUsage

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 )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lost

DomainTitle

Books

  • Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia (reference)

  • The Edmund Fitzgerald: Lost With All Hands: A True Story for Young Readers (reference)

  • Altered Spring: An Allegorical Novel of Lost Men (reference)

  • The Lost Tradition: Essays on Middle English Alliterative Poetry (reference)

  • Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science-From the Babylonians to the Maya (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Buddy Rich and His Band--The Lost West Side Story Tapes DVD (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lost

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Photo Album: Lost

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Lost
 

"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."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Lost".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Fog horn, lighthouse; shipping; ocean; ship; fog; dark; lost at sea; storm.Lose; losing; lost; game; video game; arcade.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Lost

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Lost

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Lost

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lost

SubjectTopicQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Lost

SpeakerPhrase(s)

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Lost

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797There 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

1801-1809To have awaited a previous and special sanction by law would have lost occasions which might not be retrieved.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Much time is lost, much unnecessary expense incurred, and much public property wasted under the present arrangement.

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953In addition, I recommended insurance benefits to replace part of the earnings lost through temporary sickness and permanent disability.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977I am always an optimist, but we must make up for lost time.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Last week the Senate lost a good and honest man, Lee Metcalf of Montana.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Seven thousand acres of farmland and open space are lost every day.

George W. Bush

2001-2005And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Lost

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)62.61%9,0591,053
Lexical Verb (past tense)24.32%3,5192,764
Adjective (general or positive)13.07%1,8924,520
                    Total100.00%14,471N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Lost

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lost

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Lost

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 

  

(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)