engaged

English[edit]

engaged

engaged (not comparable)

Agreed to be married.
Synonyms: affianced, betrothed
Busy or employed.
Greatly interested.
(Britain) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
Synonym: (US) busy

I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.
(architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
(of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
(military) being attacked or attacking
(medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”)
- 2002, Maria Lauret, Liberating Literature (page 81)
  Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.

agreed to be married

Italian: fidanzato (it) m, fidanzata (it) f, impegnato (it) m, impegnata (it) f
Japanese: 婚約している (ja) (こんやくしている, kon'yaku-shite iru) (verb)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forlovet, (to get engaged) forlove seg
Polish: narzeczony (pl) m, narzeczona (pl) f
Portuguese: noivo (pt)
Romanian: logodit (ro)
Russian: помо́лвленный (ru) m (pomólvlennyj), помо́лвленная (ru) f (pomólvlennaja), обручённый (ru) (obručónnyj), обручённая (ru) f (obručónnaja)
Slovak: zasnúbený m, zasnúbená f
Spanish: comprometido (es)
Swedish: förlovad (sv)
Turkish: nişanlı (tr), sözlü (tr)
Yiddish: פֿאַרקנסט‎ (farknast)

busy or employed — see busy

already involved in a telephone call