saved

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adjective

ˈsāvd 

1

: set aside, stored, or preserved for later use

saved money

Most of the time what I write that later might seem to be a "character" is only an on-going assemblage of sentences—lines of made-up or saved dialogue, bits of personally interesting description …

—Richard Ford

2

religion : delivered from sin and from spiritual death : rescued from eternal punishment

a saved soul

saved

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past tense and past participle of save entry 1

Examples of saved in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

But the tale of the shitty guy who uses his ‘saved’ status to avoid scrutiny of his current choices? — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

Spotify noted that the album is one of the most pre-saved album Countdown Pages in platform history, with more than five million presaves. — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 21 Mar. 2026

Don't Be Dumb broke Spotify's record as the most pre-saved hip-hop album on the platform with 1 million total pre-saves. — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026

The album surpassed 1 million pre-saves on Spotify, becoming hip-hop’s most pre-saved album on the platform. — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 20 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Phrases Containing saved

• a penny saved (is a penny earned)

Rhymes for saved

• behaved
• depraved
• engraved
• enslaved
• unpaved
• unsaved
• autoclaved
• misbehaved
• braved
• caved
• craved
• paved