engaged

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

engaged

1. simple past tense and past participle of engage

Adjective

engaged (not comparable)

1. Agreed to be married.
2. Busy or employed.
3. (UK) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls it
4. (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
5. (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation

Synonyms

• (of a telephone): (US) busy

Related terms

• engage
• engagement

See also

• (agreed to be married): fiancée, fiancé

Translations

agreed to be married

• Arabic: خطب, مخطوب (ar) (makhTuub) m, مخطوبة (ar) (makhTuuba) f
• Bulgarian: сгоден (bg) (sgoden)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 訂婚了 (cmn), 订婚了 (cmn) (dìnghūn le) (verb)

• Czech: zasnoubený (cs) m
• Danish: forlovet (da)
• Dutch: verloofd (nl)
• Finnish: kihloissa (fi), kihloihin (fi)
• French: fiancé (fr) m, fiancée (fr) f
• German: verlobt (de)

• Hebrew: מאורס (he) (m'orás)
• Japanese: 婚約している (ja) (こんやくしている, kon'yaku-shite iru) (verb)
• Norwegian: forlovet (no)
• Polish: narzeczony (pl) m, narzeczona (pl) f
• Portuguese: noivo (pt)
• Russian: помолвленный (ru) (pomólvlennyj) m , помолвленная (ru) (pomólvlennaja) f , обручённый (ru) (obručónnyj) , обручённая (ru) (obručónnaja) f 
• Spanish: comprometido (es)
• Swedish: förlovad (sv)
• Turkish: nişanlı (tr), sözlü (tr)

already involved in a telephone call

• Bulgarian: зает (bg) (zaet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使用中的 (cmn) (shǐyòngzhōng-de)

• Danish: optaget (da)
• Dutch: bezet (nl), in gesprek (nl)
• Finnish: varattu (fi)
• French: engagé (fr)

• German: besetzt (de)
• Japanese: 使用中 (ja) (しようちゅう, shiyōchū)
• Portuguese: ocupado (pt)
• Russian: занятый (ru) (zánjatyj) 
• Spanish: comunicado (es) (Spain), ocupado (es) (Latin America)
• Swedish: upptagen (sv)

Statistics

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