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O.k.

Definition: O.k.

O.k.

Adjective

1. N awkward stupid person oafish adj : ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" Oahu.

2. Gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic; used to seal a joint against high pressure oaf.

3. England) the basic level of a subject taken in school O ring.

4. (informal) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine" adv : (informal) in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right') O level.

5. N awkward stupid person oafish adj : ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" Oahu.

6. Gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic; used to seal a joint against high pressure oaf.

7. England) the basic level of a subject taken in school O ring.

8. (informal) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine" adv : (informal) in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right') O level.

Noun

1. An island of central Hawaii (between Molokai and Kauai); the chief island of the state Oahu Island n : an islan.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: O.k.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

o.k.

DutchOnderkastComputing, Publishing & Graphic Arts

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: O.k.

Non-English Usage: "O.k." is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (legit).

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Modern Usage: O.k.

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Big Beef at the O.K. Corral (1974)

O.K. ... Laliberté (1973)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

O.K. Nerone (1951)

Yi yao O.K. (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: O.k.

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (reference)

  • Mix-Up at the O.K. Corral: The Memoirs of H. H. Lomax (reference)

  • In Words of Love a Little Exaggeration Is O.K. Bookmark (reference)

  • And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Coral Gunfight (reference)

  • The O.K. Corral Inquest (Early West) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: O.k.

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

O.K.. Credit: Library of Congress.

O.K., buddy, the ban's off. Credit: Library of Congress.

Twenty members of the committee say it's O.K., and I think we can count on Shipstead ... Credit: Library of Congress.

O.K., if you both want to keep on eating that indigestible stuff!. Credit: Library of Congress.

O.K., boys, let's all take the pledge!. Credit: Library of Congress.

O.K., young man, get going!. Credit: Library of Congress.

We'll be o.k. if the fuel holds out!. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: O.k.

"O.k." is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 62.74% of the time. "O.k." is used about 212 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Interjection62.74%13327,614
Lexical Verb (base form)23.11%4948,677
Adjective (general or positive)13.68%2964,444
Noun (common)0.47%1339,140
                    Total100.00%212N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: O.k.

Expressions using "o.k.": be o.k. everything's o.k.. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: O.k.

Language Translations for "o.k."; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

top (agreed, OK, okay). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

好。. (various references)

   

French

  

très bien, tout va bien, tout marche bien, donner son accord, d'accord, bien, approuver, approuvé, approber, ça va. (various references)

   

German

  

okay (okay, right you are), ok (good enough, okay), zustimmung (accordance, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, assentation, compliance, consent, indulgence, okay, sanction), in ordnung (agreed, all right, alright, decent, groovy, it was nothing, okay, spick and span, to remedy), gut (all right, belongings, beneficial, capable, domain, efficiently, estate, farm, fine, freight, gear, good, goods, handsomely, holding, item, keen, manor, material, nice, nicely, okay, possession, property, quiet, ranch, rigging, safely, sharp, solid, that's good, understood, well). (various references)

   

Guarani

  

ipôrama (it is already o.k.). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בס"ר (all right, alright, okay). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rendben van (alright, nuff said, nuff sed, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, to be in good trim, to be in order), rendben (in good order, in order, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, ship-shape), jóváhagy (affirm, approbate, approve, assent, confirm, endorse, indorse, ok, okay, okey, ratify, sanction, to approve, to approve of, to assent, to consent, to endorse, to indorse, to o.k., to ratify, to uphold, to validate, upheld, uphold), helyes (appropriate, apt, compt, correct, fitting, legitimate, nice, nice-looking, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, Ortho, pertinent, proper, quite so, right, Roger, seemly, true, well), helybenhagy (ok, okay, okey, to affirm, to approve, to belabor, to belabour, to O.K., uphold). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vabene (ok, okay), tutto bene (ok, okay), ebbene (now, ok, okay, well), bene (all right, aright, asset, cool, fine, gift, good, OK, okay, possession, properly, really, right, very, well, wide). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

調  (all right, doing well, favourable), 調 (all right, doing well, favourable), 大丈夫 (all right, safe), オー の法則 (all guarantee, all or nothing, all right, all square, all-in-one, all-occasion dress, all-season coat, all-season dress, all-season track, allspice, all-star cast, all-star game, all-wave, all-weather coat, all-weather track, alternative, alternative school, alternative space, aura, aural communication, oar, Ohm's law, oldie, oldies, omen, oral, oral approach, oral method, oral sex). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

オーライ (all right), じゅ"ちょう (all right, doing well, favourable), いじょうぶ (all right, safe). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

승인하십시".. (various references)

   

Pidgin English

  

ok. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

o.k.ay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

okay (ok, okay, okey, okeydokey), ok (ok, okay, okey, okeydokey), expressão de aprovação (ok, okay, okey, okeydokey), correto (accurate, all right, anchored, clean-fingered, correct, genteel, gentlemanlike, incorrupt, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, proper, seemly, sportsmanlike, sporty, true), certo (absolute, accurate, all right, assured, certain, clean-cut, clock-work, confident, correct, exact, fit, insurant, jumped-up, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, precise, precision, reliable, secure, such, sure, true, well-defined), bom (decent, fair, fine, fit, good, healthy, meritorious, nice, nice guy, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, praiseworthy, rattling), APROVE., aprovar (acclaim, accredit, allow, applaud, approbate, approve, clap, endorse, find, indorse, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, ratify, sanction), aprovado (accredited, canonic, canonical, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

foarte bine (allright, good enough, okay). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

окей (okay). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vale (agreed, chit, coupon, hello, it is worth, it is worthwhile, ok, okay, okey, paybill, right-ho, scrip, stet, token, voucher). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

okej (done, ok, okay, okeydokey), okay (done, ok, okay, okeydokey), ok (done, ok, okay, okeydokey, yoke), rätt (aright, authority, bang, claim, correct, course, dish, fair, fairly, full, jolly, justice, law, law court, ok, okay, okeydokey, pretty, proper, quite, rather, right, right hand, righteousness, right-hand, rightly, straight, the right, tribunal, true, warrant), i sin ordning (in order, ok, okay, okeydokey), godkänna (accredit, admit, adopt, allow, approve, approve of, authorize, endorse, indorse, ok, okay, pass a test, sanction), gillande (approbation, approval, assent, Favor, favour, in favor of, in favour of, ok, okay, okey, plaudit), gärna det (all right, ok, okay, okey), bra (all right, bonny, fine, funky, good, great, jolly, longish, nice, not badly, ok, okay, okeydokey, quite, right, useful, very, very much, well). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ใช้ไ"้ (okay). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

onaylamak (accept, acknowledge, affirm, approve, attest, authorise, authorize, be recognizant of, bear out, certify, confirm, corroborate, countersign, endorse, give countenance to, grant, hear, hold with, homologate, indorse, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimize, lend countenance to, ok, okay, ratify, recognize, sanction, smile on, stamp, subscribe, sustain, to confirm, uphold, validate, verify, visa, vise, vouch, witness), onay (acknowledgement, affirmation, approbation, approval, assent, backing, certification, confirmation, endorsement, indorsement, legitimation, ok, okay, ratification, sanction, visa, vise), olur (agreed, all right, alright, can do, it'll be, ok, okay, yes), oldu (agreed, deal, done, ok, okay), okeylemek (ok, okay), okey (ok, okay), tamam (according to hoyle, agreed, all right, alright, complete, done, exactly, finished, it's a deal, mature, OK, okay, precisely, righto, rightoh, roger, yeah), peki (all right, alright, good, ok, okay, very well, well), makbul (acceptable, accepted, agreeable, far out, grateful, ok, okay, palatable), kabul (acceptance, acceptation, acknowledgement, admission, admittance, agreed, approval, assent, concession, done, drawing room, it's a bargain, placet, receiving, reception, recognition, thumbs up), iyi (agreeable, all right, alright, b, comfortable, decent, decently, fair, fine, good, gratifying, great, happy, just, kind, ok, okay, sound, well, well enough), idare eder (good deal, ok, okay, so so). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

схвалювати (approbate, approve, countenance, ok, okay, okey, sanction, smile, welcome), схвалення (acceptance, accolade, allowance, applause, approbation, approof, approval, backing, ok, okay, okey), санкція (approbation, approof, approval, assent, imprimatur, ok, okay, okey, sanction), слухаю (ok, okay, okey, okeydokey), справний (ok, okay, okey, serviceable, taut), гаразд (alright, done, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, so), все в порядку (ok, okay, okey), згода (accedence, accord, accordance, adhesion, agreement, approbation, approval, arrangement, assent, compliance, concert, concord, concordance, consensus, consent, consonance, entente, fiat, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, oneness, suit, understanding, yea, yes), затверджувати (appoint, approbate, approve, certify, ok, okay, okey, ratify, validate), підхожий (acceptable, adapted, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, befitting, canny, eligible, feasible, fit, fitting, good, likely, meet, ok, okay, okey, opportune, proper, qualified, suitable), правильно (accurately, alright, aright, correctly, duly, normally, ok, okay, okey, properly, regular, regularly, right, right on, rightly, straight, that's right), прийнятний (acceptable, acceptive, admissible, adoptable, eligible, entertainable, ok, okay, okey, receivable, supportable), дозвіл (allowance, assent, authorization, consent, leave, leaving, ok, okay, okey, order, permission, permit, permittance, warranty), добре (all right, decently, familiarly, good, nicely, ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, right-ho, smoothly, well), давати згоду (agree, ok, okay, okey, say yes). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tốt (all right, decently, famously, feracious, fertile, fine, hunky, splendid), sự tán th nh (acceptance, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, endorsement, espousal, fiat, imprimatur, indorsation, indorsement), sự đ"ng ý (accord, accordance, acquiescence, adhesion, agreement, approbation, approval, concurrence, consent, imprimatur), được (about, all right, serene, yes, yeses). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: O.k.

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters ".-.-k-o"

-2 letters: ko.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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