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taken

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈteɪ.kn̩/

Definition of taken

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
    “He was very taken with the girl, I hear.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
    “He was very taken with the girl, I hear.”
  2. (informal, not-comparable)In a serious romantic relationship.
    “I can't ask her out, she's taken.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of take
    “No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief[…]”

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Etymology

From Middle English taken, takenn, from Old English tacen, *ġetacen, from Old Norse tekinn, from Proto-Germanic *tēkanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to take; grasp; touch”). Cognate with Scots takin, tane, Danish tagen, Swedish tagen, Icelandic tekin. Morphologically take + -n.

Anagrams of taken

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