What does had mean?
Had means simple past and past participle of have.
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/hæd/ · verb
simple past and past participle of have.
This morning I had an egg for breakfast.
A good time was had by all.
About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton,[…].
I felt sure that I had seen him before.
When I'd (already) done some exercise, I had a cappuccino.
Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?
Had I not known you were coming this evening, I'd have left at midday.
To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute[…].
Use had when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Had means simple past and past participle of have.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This morning I had an egg for breakfast.
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