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).

• (British) IPA: /dʌn/, [dɐn], [dʊn]
• (America) enPR: dŭn, IPA: /dʌn/

done

1. 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.

2. (of an activity or task) Completed or finished.

   I'll text you when the movie's done.

3. (of food) Ready, fully cooked.

   As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.

4. Being exhausted or fully spent.

   When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.

5. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.

   He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.

6. 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

• Russian: конченый
• Spanish: acabado

1. past participle of do

   I have done my work.

2. (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."

3. (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.

1. (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)

1. (slang) Clipping of methadone

   on the done

done (plural dones)

1. Alternative form of dhoni

1. Surname.