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done

Pronunciation: /dʌn/

The English word “done” has 11 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Having completed or finished an activity.
  2. Completed or finished.
  3. Ready, fully cooked.
  4. Being exhausted, used up, or fully spent.
  5. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
  6. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
  7. Finished with (something).
  8. Punished.

verb

  1. Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.

interjection

  1. Expresses that a task has been completed.
  2. Expresses agreement to and conclusion of a proposal, a set of terms, a sale, a request, etc.

Etymology

From Middle English don, idon, ydon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending). Cognate with Scots dune, deen, dene, dane (“done”), Saterland Frisian däin (“done”), West Frisian dien (“done”), Dutch gedaan (“done”), German Low German daan (“done”),…

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