OK

See also: ok, Ok, -ok, ók, òk, ők, and Variations of "ok"

OK - English

Pronunciation

  • (unstressed)
    • IPA: /əˈkeɪ/

Alternative forms

Noun

OK (plural OKs or OK's)

  1. Endorsement; approval.
    • We can start as soon as we get the OK.

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Verb

OK (third-person singular simple present OKs or OK's, present participle OKing or OK'ing, simple past and past participle OKed or OK'd)

  1. (transitive) To approve.
    • I don't want to OK this amount of money.
  2. (transitive, computing) To confirm by activating a button marked OK.

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Translations

  • Afrikaans: OK
  • Albanian: në rregull
  • Amharic: እሺ (ʾəši)
  • Arabic: موافق
  • Armenian: հաստատել (hy) (hastatel)
  • Assamese: ঠিক (thik)
  • Azerbaijani: ok (az)
  • Basque: ados
  • Belarusian: ОК (OK)
  • Bengali: ঠিক আছে (ṭhik ache)
  • Bulgarian: ОK (OK)
  • Burmese: OK (my)
  • Catalan: d'acord (ca)
  • Chinese:
  • Czech: OK (cs)
  • Danish: OK
  • Dutch: OK (nl), akkoord (nl)
  • Estonian: OK
  • Finnish: hyväksyä (fi), OK (fi)
  • French: valider (fr), OK (fr)
  • Galician: aceptar (gl)
  • Georgian: კარგი (ka) (ḳargi)
  • German: OK (de)
  • Greek: ΟΚ (OK)
  • Gujarati: ઓકે (oke)
  • Hebrew: אישור (he)
  • Hindi: ठीक है (ṭhīk hai)
  • Hungarian: leokéz, OK-t nyom, OK-ra kattint
  • Icelandic: í lagi (is)
  • Indonesian: oke (id)
  • Italian: OK (it)
  • Japanese: OK (ja)
  • Kannada: ಸರಿ (kn) (sari)
  • Kazakh: жарайды (jaraidy)
  • Khmer: យល់ព្រម (yŭəl prɔɔm)
  • Korean: 확인 (ko) (hwagin)
  • Kyrgyz: OK
  • Lao: ຕົກລົງ (tok long)
  • Latvian: LABI
  • Lithuanian: gerai (lt)
  • Macedonian: во ред (vo red), по́тврди (pótvrdi)
  • Malay: OK
  • Malayalam: ശരി (ml) (śari)
  • Marathi: ठीक आहे (ṭhīk āhe)
  • Mongolian: ТИЙМ (TIJM)
  • Nepali: ठिक छ (ṭhik cha)
  • Norwegian:
    • Bokmål: OK (no)
  • Oriya: ଠିକ୍‌ ଅଛି (ṭhik‌ ôchi)
  • Persian: تأیید (fa)
  • Polish: OK (pl)
  • Portuguese: OK (pt), (Brazil) ok (pt)
  • Punjabi: ਠੀਕ (pa) (ṭhīk)
  • Romanian: OK
  • Russian: ОК (OK)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: потврди, (Bosnia) уреду, (Croatia) у реду
    • Roman: potvrdi (sh), (Bosnia) uredu, (Croatia) u redu
  • Sinhalese: හරි (hari)
  • Slovak: OK
  • Slovene: v redu
  • Spanish: aceptar (es)
  • Swahili: sawa (sw)
  • Swedish: OK (sv)
  • Tagalog: OK
  • Tamil: சரி (ta) (cari)
  • Telugu: సరే (te) (sarē)
  • Thai: ตกลง (th) (dtòk-long)
  • Turkish: TAMAM
  • Ukrainian: ОК (OK)
  • Urdu: ٹھیک ہے
  • Uzbek: OK
  • Vietnamese: nhấn OK, bấm OK
  • Welsh: clicio "iawn"

Adjective

OK (comparative more OK, superlative most OK)

  1. All right, acceptable, permitted.
    • Do you think it's OK to stay here for the night?
  2. Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
    • The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
  3. Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
  4. In good health or a good emotional state.
    • He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.

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Adverb

OK (comparative more OK, superlative most OK)

  1. Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.
    • The team did OK in the playoffs.

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Interjection

OK

  1. Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
  2. (computing) Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
  3. Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
    • Synonyms: now, now then
    • OK, I'm thinking of a number…
  4. 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, …

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Derived terms

Descendants


Proper noun

OK

  1. United States postal abbreviation for Oklahoma, a state of the United States of America.

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Noun

OK (plural not attested)

  1. (Hong Kong) Karaoke.

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OK - Chinese

Alternative forms

  • (Mandarin, one of the ways to transliterate into Chinese characters) 歐克欧克 (ōukè)
  • ok, Ok

Pronunciation

  • Mandarin
    • (Pinyin): ōukèi, ōukēi
    • (Zhuyin): ㄡ ㄎㄟˋ, ㄡ ㄎㄟ
  • Cantonese (Jyutping): ou1 kei1

Adjective

OK

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard) alright
    • OKOK   ōukèi ma?   Are you OK?
    • OOK [Cantonese]   nei5 ou1 m4 ou1 kei1 aa3? [Jyutping]   Are you OK?

Interjection

OK

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard) OK
    • 上頭OKOK上头OKOK   Shàngtou shuō ōukèi jiù ōukèi le.   If higher authorities say "OK", it means "OK".

Synonyms

Adverb

OK

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) moderately; fairly
    • OK [Cantonese]   ni1 fo1 dou1 ou1 kei1 ji6 gaa3. [Jyutping]   This course is fairly easy.

OK - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /oːˈkaː/

Noun

OK f (plural OK's)

  1. Abbreviation of operatiekamer.

OK - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈokei̯/, [ˈo̞k̟e̞i̯]
  • IPA: /ˈoːkoː/, [ˈo̞ːko̞ː]

Adjective

OK

  1. Alternative form of okei

Interjection

OK

  1. Alternative form of okei
  2. (computing) OK (in buttons, etc.)

OK - French

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɔk/, /ɔ.ke/

Interjection

OK

  1. OK (endorsement; approval)

OK - Indonesian

Noun

OK (first-person possessive OKku, second-person possessive OKmu, third-person possessive OKnya)

  1. (healthcare, colloquial) operating theatre, operating room.
    • Synonym: kamar bedah

OK - Japanese

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ーケー [óꜜòkèè] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • (Tokyo) ケー [òóꜜkèè] (Nakadaka – [2])
  • (Tokyo) ーケ [òókéꜜè] (Nakadaka – [3])
  • IPA: [o̞ːke̞ː]
  • (Tokyo) ッケー [óꜜkkèè] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA: [o̞k̚ke̞ː]

Noun

OK(オーケー) or OK(オッケー) (ōkē or okkē) 

  1. agreement; approval; okay
  2. no problem

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Adjective

OK(オーケー) or OK(オッケー) (ōkē or okkē) -na (adnominal OK(オーケー) (ōkē na), adverbial OK(オーケー) (ōkē ni))

  1. OK; all right; fine

Interjection

OK(オーケー) or OK(オッケー) (ōkē or okkē) 

  1. OK

OK - Korean

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [o̞kʰe̞i]
  • Phonetic hangul: []
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?okei
Revised Romanization (translit.)?okei
McCune–Reischauer?ok'ei
Yale Romanization?o.kheyi

Noun

OK (okei) (hangeul 오케이)

  1. (colloquial) good

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Interjection

OK (okei) (hangeul 오케이)

  1. (colloquial) OK

OK - Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA: /oˈkej/ [oˈkeɪ̯]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA: /ɔˈkɐj/

Interjection

OK

  1. OK (indicates acknowledgement or acceptance)

Noun

OK m (plural OKs)

  1. OK (an indication of acknowledgement or acceptance)

OK - Swedish

Adverb

OK

  1. OK, okay

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Adjective

OK

  1. OK, okay

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Interjection

OK

  1. OK, okay

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OK - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Interjection

OK

  1. (informal) OK, okay (acknowledgement or acceptance)
  2. (computing) OK, okay (dismissal of a dialog box or confirmation of a prompt)

Synonyms

  • (acknowledgement or acceptance): , , ừm
  • (dismissal of a dialog box or confirmation of a prompt): được

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Meaning and Definition of OK
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