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# governed

«governed» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past of govern: ruled or controlled** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (govern, governs, governed, governing); adjective (governed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Governed is the past of govern: ruled or controlled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/#m1)

2) The governed are the people who are ruled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Citizenship and history (a country governed by a king), science (motion governed by laws), rules of games.

### examples

- The island was governed by Britain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/#x1)
- The game is governed by strict rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/#x2)
- The planets' paths are governed by gravity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/#x3)
- Democracy needs the consent of the governed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/#x4)
- The school is governed by a board. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/#x5)
- He governed his temper well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/#x6)
- Long, long ago, in old Japan, the Kingdom of the Sea was governed by a wonderful King. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/#x7)

### note

Past and past participle: governed. «The governed» (noun) = the people ruled.

### In the corpora

- [The prophet Muhammad lived in Arabia about 1,400 years ago, and Islam spread quickly until Muslim rulers governed lands from Spain to India.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «governed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/governed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.