done
see also: Done
Etymology 1
Done
Proper noun
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see also: Done
Etymology 1
From Middle English don, idon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną).
Pronunciation Adjectivedone
- Having completed or finished an activity.
- He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."
- They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
- (of an activity or task) Completed or finished.
- I'll text you when the movie's done.
- (of food) Ready, fully cooked.
- As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
- Being exhausted or fully spent.
- When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
- Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
- He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
- Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
- I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!
- What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!
- (ready, fully cooked)
- (finished an activity) completed, concluded, finished, in the books
- (being exhausted) See also Thesaurus:fatigued
- (without hope of completion) See also Thesaurus:doomed
- (fashionable) See also Thesaurus:fashionable
- French: fait, prêt, terminé, cuit
- German: gar, fertig
- Portuguese: pronto
- Russian: гото́вый
- Spanish: listo, acabado
- French: fini
- German: fertig
- Italian: fatto
- Portuguese: pronto, feito, terminado, acabado
- Russian: готовый
- Spanish: terminado, hecho
- French: mort
- Portuguese: acabado
- Russian: истощённый
- past participle of do
- I have done my work.
- (nonstandard, dialectal) simple past of do; did.
Be Still... and Know That I Am God: Devotions for Every Day of the Year ↗ - She opened it up to find a quarter and a note scrawled in childish letters that said, "I done it for love."
- (African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, Cockney, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.
- I woke up and found out she done left.
- (on finishing a task) all done, finished, there, voilà
- (on agreeing to a deal) agreed, done and done, you have a deal
- French: fini
From Middle English don; equivalent to do + -en
- (obsolete) plural simple present of do
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC ↗, folio 18, verso ↗:
- The while their Foes done eache of hem ſcoꝛne.
- 1606, N[athaniel] B[axter], Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: […] Ed. Allde, for Edward White, […], →OCLC ↗, signature D2, recto ↗:
- O you Cæleſtiall euer-liuing fires,
That done inflame our hearts with high deſires; […]
- 1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Antipsychopannychia or The Third Book of the Song of the Soul: Containing a Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death. The Præexistency of the Soul, […].”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC ↗, stanza 63, page 125 ↗, column 1:
- The soul of Naboth lies to Ahab told,
As done the learnèd Hebrew Doctours write, […]
- IPA: /dəʊn/
done (uncountable)
- (slang) Clipping of methadone
- on the done
done (plural dones)
- Alternative form of dhoni
Done
Proper noun
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