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

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!
Synonyms Translations Translations Translations Translations Verb
  1. past participle of do
    I have done my work.
  2. (nonstandard, dialectal) simple past of do; did.
  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.
Interjection
Synonyms Translations Etymology 2

From Middle English don; equivalent to do + -en.

Verb
  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, […]
Pronunciation Noun

done (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Clipping of methadone
    on the done
Noun

done (plural dones)

  1. Alternative form of dhoni

Done
Proper noun
  1. Surname.



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