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

   I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.

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 m (makhTuub), مخطوبة f (makhTuuba)
• Bulgarian: сгоден (bg) (sgoden)
• Chinese:

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

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

• Hebrew: מאורס (m'orás)
• Italian: fidanzato (it) m, fidanzata (it) f, impegnato (it) m, impegnata f
• Japanese: 婚約している (ja) (こんやくしている, kon'yaku-shite iru) (verb)
• Norwegian: forlovet
• Polish: narzeczony m, narzeczona (pl) f
• Portuguese: noivo (pt)
• Russian: помолвленный (ru) m (pomólvlennyj), помолвленная f (pomólvlennaja), обручённый (obručónnyj), обручённая f (obručónnaja)
• 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 (shǐyòngzhōng-de)

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

• German: besetzt (de)
• Japanese: 使用中 (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

• Most common English words before 1923: breath · camp · prove · #991: engaged · America · servant · doctor