engaged

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/,/ɛnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/

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• Rhymes:-eɪdʒd

Verb

engaged

1. simplepastandpastparticipleofengage

Adjective

engaged(notcomparable)

1. Having agreed tomarrya particular person (one'sfiancéorfiancée) or each other.

   Synonyms:affianced,betrothed

2. Busyoremployed.
3. Greatlyinterested.
4. (British)(of a telephone)Already involved in atelephone callwhen a third party calls.

   Synonym:(US)busy

   I tried calling, but she (orher phone) wasengaged.

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 afoetus)Having thewidestpart of itspresentingpart,usually thehead,enterthepelvic brimorinlet.
9. Synonym ofengagé(“passionately committed to a cause”)
   • 2002,Maria Lauret,Liberating Literature,page81:

     Black and white women writers assumed their mantle asengagedwriters, as cultural and political critics.

Derived terms

• engaged column
• engaged tone
• otherwise engaged

Related terms

• engage
• engagement

Translations

agreed to be married

• Arabic:مَخْطُوبm(maḵṭūb),مَخْطُوبَةf(maḵṭūba)
• Armenian:նշանված(nšanvac)
• Bulgarian:сгоден(bg)(sgoden)
• Catalan:promès(ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Đính hôn liễu／Đính hôn liễu(zh)(dìnghūn le)(verb)

• Czech:zasnoubeným,zasnoubenáf
• 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),elvanjegyezve
• Irish:geallta
• Italian:fidanzato(it)m,fidanzata(it)f,impegnato(it)m,impegnata(it)f
• Japanese:Hôn ước している(ja)(こんやくしている, kon'yaku-shite iru)(verb)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:forlovet,(to get engaged)forloveseg

• Polish:narzeczony(pl)m,narzeczona(pl)f
• Portuguese:noivo(pt)
• Romanian:logodit(ro)
• Russian:помо́лвленный(ru)m(pomólvlennyj),помо́лвленная(ru)f(pomólvlennaja),обручённый(obručónnyj),обручённаяf(obručónnaja)
• Slovak:zasnúbeným,zasnúbenáf
• Spanish:comprometido(es)
• Swedish:förlovad(sv)
• Turkish:nişanlı(tr),sözlü(tr)
• Yiddish:פֿאַרקנסט(farknast)

busy or employed—seebusy

already involved in a telephone call

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

  Mandarin:Sử dụng trung đích(shǐyòngzhōng-de)

• Danish:optaget
• Dutch:bezet(nl),in gesprek
• Finnish:varattu(fi)
• French:engagé(fr)
• German:besetzt(de)
• Hungarian:foglalt(hu)
• Irish:gafa
• Japanese:Sử dụng trung(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)