due
owed and payable immediately or on demand
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,207 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 15,177 times across 175,177 chapters — 0.007% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- owed and payable immediately or on demand payment is due
- scheduled to arrive the train is due in 15 minutes
- suitable to or expected in the circumstances all due respectdue cause to honor them
- capable of being assigned or credited to also: ascribable, imputable, referable punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreadingthe cancellation of the concert was due to the rain
noun
- that which is deserved or owed give the devil his due
- a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership) the society dropped him for non-payment of dues
adverb
- directly or exactly; straight went due North
due in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Discipline must be; the scourge is deemed due.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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She took the bird’s advice, and in due time arrived at the house of Locrinos.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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The freedom of worship, dear to you, Is dear to all, and to all is due.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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The rent was due, the coal was out, and only a few potatoes were left in the barrel.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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Certainly, fortune favored Angus Ray, and not least noticeably when in due course he looked about him for a wife.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1