could🔊

(spast)

(cond)

{{non-gloss|Used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact).}}

{{non-gloss|Used to politely ask for permission to do something}}.

{{non-gloss|Used to politely ask for someone else to do something}}.

{{non-gloss|Used to show the possibility that something might happen}}.

{{non-gloss|Used to suggest something}}.

(Tyneside) (can)

Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.