Definitions for the word "save" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
The herb sage, or salvia.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a.
To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. a.
To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. a.
To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. a.
To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. a.
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. conj.
Except; unless.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v.
(-ving) 1 (often foll. By from) rescue or keep from danger, harm, etc. 2 (often foll. By up) keep (esp. Money) for future use. 3 a (often refl.) Relieve (another or oneself) from spending (money, time, trouble, etc.); prevent exposure to (annoyance etc.). B obviate the need for. 4 preserve from damnation; convert. 5 a avoid losing (a game, match, etc.). B prevent (a goal etc.) From being scored. n. Football etc. Prevention of a goal etc. savable adj. (also saveable). [latin salvo from salvus safe]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. slang
to give part of one bet for part of another. A. and B. have
backed different horses, and they agree that in the event of either one
winning he shall give the other, say, £5. This is called “SAVING a
fiver,” and generally is done when scratchings and knockings-out have
left the field so that one of the two speculators must be a winner. The
practice also obtains much in competitions decided in heats or rounds,
in the course of which backers and layers comparing their prospects
often “SAVE a bit” with each other. Saving is, therefore, a form of
hedging.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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