English word return comes from Old French retorner
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| retorner | Old French (fro) | (intransitive) to return (go back to). (transitive) to turn again. |
| returner | Anglo-Norman (xno) | |
| retornen | Middle English (enm) | |
| return | English (eng) | (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.. (computing) A carriage return character.. (computing) A return value: the data [...] |