begun
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- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
/bɪˈɡʌn/
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/bɪˈɡʌn/ · /bɪˈɡʊn/
Definition of begun
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(form-of, participle, past)past participle of begin
“... when he should take the sield, that city was persuaded to complete the regiment they had begun to form, under the command of a Colonel whom the King had recommended to them ; which they did raise to the number of a thousand men.”
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verb
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(form-of, participle, past)past participle of begin
“... when he should take the sield, that city was persuaded to complete the regiment they had begun to form, under the command of a Colonel whom the King had recommended to them ; which they did raise to the number of a thousand men.”
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(form-of, nonstandard, obsolete, past)simple past of begin
“When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We've no less days to sing God's praise, Than when we first begun.”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Russian бегу́н (begún, “runner”), a nickname used in the local Jewish community. Doublet of Biegun and Bihun, from Polish and Ukrainian respectively. * A variant of Begum, an Indian surname found in the Muslim community.
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