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Taken

//ˈteɪ.kn̩// adj, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Infatuated; fond of or attracted to. not-comparable

    "He was very taken with the girl, I hear."

  2. 2
    In a serious romantic relationship. informal, not-comparable

    "I can't ask her out, she's taken."

Adjective
  1. 1
    be affected with an indisposition wordnet
  2. 2
    understood in a certain way; made sense of wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    past participle of take form-of, participle, past

    "No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief[…]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English taken, takenn, from Old English tacen, *ġetacen, from Old Norse tekinn, from Proto-Germanic *tēkanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to take; grasp; touch”). Cognate with Scots takin, tane, Danish tagen, Swedish tagen, Icelandic tekin. Morphologically take + -n.

Etymology 2

From Middle English taken, takenn, from Old English tacen, *ġetacen, from Old Norse tekinn, from Proto-Germanic *tēkanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to take; grasp; touch”). Cognate with Scots takin, tane, Danish tagen, Swedish tagen, Icelandic tekin. Morphologically take + -n.

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