caught

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /kɔːt/
• (West Country) IPA^(key): /koːt/, [kʰo̞ːt], [kʰo̞ːʔ]

  • Audio (Gloucestershire); [kʰo̞ːt]:

    (file)

• (General American, without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /kɔt/, [kʰɔt]
• (General American, cot–caught merger, Atlantic Canada) IPA^(key): /kɑt/, [kʰɑt]

  • Audio (California):

    (file)

• (US, dialect, without the cot–caught merger)
  • IPA^(key): /kɔt/, (New York) [kʰɔə̯t], (New England) [kʰoə̯t], (Southern, Inland South) [kʰʊə̯t]

    • Audio (New York); [kʰɔɛ̙t]:

      (file)

    • Audio (New England); [kʰoə̯t]:

      (file)

  • (Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): /kɔt/, [kʰɒt], [kʰɑt]

    • Audio; [kʰɔɑt]:

      (file)

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kɒt/, [kʰɒt]
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /koːt/, [k̠ʰoːt], [kʰo̝ːʔ]

  • Audio (Australia):

    (file)

• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /kɔt/
• (MLE) IPA^(key): [qʰoːʔ], [kʰoːʔ]
• Homophones: cot (cot–caught merger), court (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔːt

Adjective

caught (not comparable)

1. (cricket) Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.

Derived terms

• caught and bowled
• wild-caught

Verb

caught

1. simple past and past participle of catch

Synonyms

• catched (obsolete or nonstandard)

Derived terms

• cot-caught, cot-caught merged
• uncaught
• upcaught