🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

cercare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: cherkare

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Search/sɜːrtʃ/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Sto cercando le mie chiavi."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To look for someone or something carefully by inspecting a place, person, or database.

    "She searched everywhere for her lost car keys."
As noun
  1. 1

    An act of searching for someone or something.

    "The police launched an intensive search for the missing child."

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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'search' originates from the Old French 'cerchier', which means 'to seek' or 'to search for'. It evolved from the Latin 'circare', meaning 'to go around', reflecting the act of looking around for something.

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