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OK¹
- /ˌəʊˈkeɪ/ UK
- /ˌoʊˈkeɪ/ US
- /əˈkeɪ/
Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.
The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.
noun OKs · OK's · O.K. · o.k. · ok · okay
- Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence. We can start as soon as we get the OK.
verb OKs · OK's · OKing · OK'ing · OKed
- To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to. I don't want to OK this amount of money.
- To confirm by activating a button marked OK. Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.
adjective more OK · OKer · most OK · OKest · O.K. · o.k.
- All right, acceptable, permitted. Is it OK if I spend the night?
- Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional. The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
- Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs. If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine.
- In good health or a good emotional state. He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
adverb more OK · most OK · O.K. · o.k. · ok · okay
- Satisfactorily, sufficiently well. The team did OK in the playoffs.
interjection O.K. · o.k. · ok · okay · O. K. · o. k.
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance. I promise to give it back. – OK.
- Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
- Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said. OK, I'm thinking of a number…
- Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter. You always do this to me! When we were at your mother’s, you said that… – OK, OK, …
- Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.
OK²
- /ˌəʊˈkeɪ/ UK
- /ˌoʊˈkeɪ/ US
- /əˈkeɪ/
Rhymes with -eɪ
proper noun OK. · Ok. · Ok
- Abbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.Oklahoma
OK³
- /ˌəʊˈkeɪ/ UK
- /ˌoʊˈkeɪ/ US
- /əˈkeɪ/
Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
Possibly a shortening of Chinese 卡拉OK.
noun
- Karaoke.
ok⁴
- /ˌəʊˈkeɪ/ UK
- /ˌoʊˈkeɪ/ US
adjective
- Alternative letter-case form of OK.OK Finally, the word examined can be analyzed as a main verb […] or as a relative clause modifier of defendant[…], and each continuation sounds ok.
Ok⁵
proper noun
- A language family spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Ok⁶
proper noun OK · OK. · Ok.
- Alternative form of Ok.: Abbreviation of Oklahoma: a state of the United States.Ok.
Ok⁷
interjection
- Alternative form of OK (“okay”).OK
