adj
Meaning 1
Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- He was very taken with the girl, I hear.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
taken
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈteɪ.kn̩/
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rhymes with -eɪkən
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CMU ARPABET: T EY1 K AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
In a serious romantic relationship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, not-comparable
Examples
- I can't ask her out, she's taken.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
past participle of take
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
be affected with an indisposition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the child was taken ill
- couldn't tell when he would be taken drunk
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
understood in a certain way; made sense of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a word taken literally
- a smile taken as consent
- an open door interpreted as an invitation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: interpreted
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: Zan (geg) — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- Czech: zaujatý — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- Finnish: pihkassa — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- German: ergriffen — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- German: eingenommen — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- Italian: infatuato — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- Italian: attratto — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- Italian: coinvolto — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- Norwegian: betatt — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- Swedish: förtjust — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- Swedish: intagen — infatuated, fond of or attracted to
- Arabic: مرتبط — informal: in a relationship
- Czech: zadaný — informal: in a relationship
- Czech: zadaná — informal: in a relationship
- Finnish: varattu — informal: in a relationship
- German: vergeben — informal: in a relationship
- Italian: impegnato — informal: in a relationship
- Italian: coinvolto — informal: in a relationship
- Norwegian: opptatt — informal: in a relationship
- Polish: zajęty — informal: in a relationship
- Polish: zajęta — informal: in a relationship
Real reading context