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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

alentado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: a-len-ˈta-ðo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Heartened/ˈhɑːt.ənd/
adjectiveverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Ella se sintió alentada por el abrumador apoyo de su comunidad."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Made to feel more encouraged, hopeful, or cheerful.

    "She was heartened by the overwhelming support from her community."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense and past participle of 'hearten', meaning to give courage or confidence to someone.

    "The positive test results heartened the entire medical team."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'heart' combined with the verb-forming suffix 'en-', originating from Middle English 'herten', which evolved from Old English 'heortian'. The past participle form functions adjectivally to denote being given courage, hope, or cheer by external circumstances.

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