returned
adjUK /ɹɪˈtəːnd/ · US /ɹɪˈtɝnd/
1
Bent back; angled.
2
That has come back.
4
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US Back home having been discharged from military service.
- There are about thirty full-blooded returned men in this state whom I believe are not entitled to the old-age pension.1941, Pearl Gibbs, radio broadcast, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 38
- Derived terms
- nonreturned, unreturned