Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Given is the past participle of give .
2.
If you talk about, for example, any ~ position or a ~ time, you mean the particular position or time that you are discussing.
In chess there are typically about 36 legal moves from any ~ board position...
Over a ~ period, the value of shares will rise and fall.
= particular
ADJ: det ADJ
3.
Given is used when indicating a possible situation in which someone has the opportunity or ability to do something. For example, ~ the chance means ‘if I had the chance’.
Write down the sort of thing you would like to do, ~ the opportunity...
Given patience, successful breeding of this species can be achieved.
PREP
4.
If you say ~ that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
Usually, I am sensible with money, as I have to be, ~ that I don’t earn that much.
= considering
PHRASE
5.
If you say ~ something, you mean taking that thing into account.
Given the uncertainty over Leigh’s future I was left with little other choice.
PREP
6.
If you are ~ to doing something, you often do it. (FORMAL)
I am not very ~ to emotional displays.
ADJ: v-link ADJ to -ing/n