Meaning of participate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
   intransitive
2. To share, to take part in (something).
   obsolete, transitive
3. to be one of a group of people actively doing something. Did you participate in the discussion? deelneem يَشْتَرِك участвам participar zúčastnit se teilnehmen deltage συμμετέχωparticipar osalema شرکت کردن osallistua participer (à) לְהִשתַתֵף भाग लेना imati udjela, sudjelovati részt vesz berperan serta taka þátt í partecipare 参加する 참가하다 dalyvauti piedalīties menyertai deelnemendelta, ta del brać udział, uczestniczyć برخه اخيستل، ګډون كول participar a par­ticipa (la) участвовать zúčastniť sa ude...
4. To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.
   obsolete
5. deelname إشْتِراك، مُشارَكَه участие participação účast die Teilnahme deltagelse συμμετοχήparticipación osavõtt مشارکت osallistuminen participationהשתתפות भाग लेने वाला sudjelovanje részvétel peran serta þátttaka partecipazione 参加 참가 dalyvavimas piedalīšanās penyertaan deelnamedeltakelse, medvirkningudział ګډون، برخه اخيستنه participação participare участие účasť udeležba učešće deltagande, medverkan การมีส่วนร่วม katılma, katılım 參加 участь مساہمت، شرکت sự tham dự 参加
6. a person who participates (in a particular activity). the participants in the Olympic Games. deelnemer مُشارِك، مُشْتَرِك участник participante účastník, -ice der/die Teilnehmer(in) deltager συμμετέχων, διαγωνιζόμενοςparticipante osavõtja شرکت کننده osallistuja participant/-ante משתתף भाग लेने वाला sudionik rész(t)vevő pemeran serta þátttakandi partecipante 参加者 참가자 dalyvis []dalībnieks peserta deelnemerdeltakeruczestnik برخه اخيستونكى participante parti­ci­pant участник účastník, -čka udeleže...
7. participar, tomar parte.
8. To be active or involved in something; take part: participated in the festivities.
9. To share in something: If only I could participate in your good fortune.
10. (often foll by: in) to take part, be or become actively involved, or share (in)
    in
11. to take part or have a share, as with others (usu. fol. by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a conversation.
    in
12. Archaic. to share.
13. To involve oneself in (an activity):carry on, engage, have, indulge, partake.

Equivalents

Examples

“For the second year, foreign amateur runners were allowed to participate in a 10-kilometer race, a half-marathon or a full marathon in Pyongyang, the capital. The races were a part of the April 15 birthday celebration of Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea and father of his successors: Kim Jong-il, a son, and Kim Jong-un, a grandson.”

“A spirit I am indeed; But am in that dimension grossly clad Which from the womb I did participate.”

“[The Persees] are tollerated all sorts of meat; but (in obedience to the Mahomitan and Bannyan ’mongst whom they live) refraine Beefe and Hog flesh: they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup […].”

“[H]e is less likely there to find companions who understand him, and can participate his pleasure: for the French ladies in general have, I believe, very little notion of that species of delight that arises from contemplating the simple beauties of nature.”

“In what country on the globe is it, that in the class of mankind doomed to labour, we shall not find tribes, the women of which participate the toils of the men?”

“1661, Thomas Salusbury, Galilaeus Galilaeus Lyncaeus, His Systeme of the World, Second Dialogue, in Mathematical Collections and Translations, London, p. 105, Make the Earth […] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star, all shall have their risings, settings, and in a word, all their other appearances.”

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