Definition of "referred" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of refer. (verb)

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• "Originally, the term referred to the rededication of the purified Temple after the Maccabees' stunning military victory."
• "A pistole was originally a Spanish 2-escudo gold piece, but by the eighteenth century the term referred in English to any of a number of small gold coins of several European nations, with about the same low value."