engaged

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/, /ɛnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒd

Verb

engaged

1. simple past and past participle of engage

Adjective

engaged (not comparable)

1. Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.

   Synonyms: affianced, betrothed

2. Busy or employed.
3. Greatly interested.
4. (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.

5. (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
6. (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
7. (military) being attacked or attacking
8. (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
9. 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.

Derived terms

• engaged column
• engaged tone
• otherwise engaged

 

Related terms

• engage
• engagement

Translations

agreed to be married

• Arabic: مَخْطُوب‎ m (maḵṭūb), مَخْطُوبَة‎ f (maḵṭūba)
• Armenian: նշանված (nšanvac)
• Bulgarian: сгоден (bg) (sgoden)
• Catalan: promès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 訂婚了／订婚了 (zh) (dìnghūn le) (verb)

• Czech: zasnoubený m, zasnoubená f
• Danish: forlovet
• Dutch: verloofd (nl)
• Finnish: kihloissa, kihloihin
• French: fiancé (fr) m, fiancée (fr) f
• German: verlobt (de)
• Hebrew: מאורס‎ (m'orás)
• Hungarian: jegyes (hu), eljegyzett (hu), el van jegyezve
• Irish: geallta
• 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 (obručónnyj), обручённая 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

• Bulgarian: зает (bg) (zaet)
• Catalan: comunicant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使用中的 (shǐyòngzhōng-de)

• Danish: optaget
• Dutch: bezet (nl), in gesprek
• Finnish: varattu (fi)
• French: engagé (fr)
• German: besetzt (de)
• Hungarian: foglalt (hu)
• Irish: gafa
• Japanese: 使用中 (しようちゅう, shiyōchū)
• Portuguese: ocupado (pt)
• Russian: за́нятый (ru) (zánjatyj)
• Spanish: comunicado (es) (Spain), ocupado (es) (Latin America)
• Swedish: upptagen (sv)