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What does condescend mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word condescend? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).
  2. (intransitive) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down (to someone).
  3. (transitive, rare, possibly nonstandard) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward (someone); to talk down to (someone).
  4. (intransitive, obsolete) To consent, agree.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To come down.
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He knew that as long as there was studio financing, any film he made for the black community would have to condescend to whites.
The poet can't therefore presume to condescend to him, because he and his peers have guarded the very bourgeois freedoms that enable his son to be a weighty thinker.
The well-intentioned results condescend to both artists and businesspeople while shedding no light on either world.
I'm inexperienced, not stupid, so don't condescend to me, okay?
Because, simply, the producers of media for young people can't patronise or condescend to their audience.
Kids demand shows that are smart and have lots of action and they remember if you condescend to them.

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