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begun

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • Ireland//bɪˈɡʊn//
  • //bɪˈɡʌn//

Having began.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of beginpast participle of begin

    ... when he should take the sield, that city was persuaded to complete the regiment they had begun to form, under the command of a Colonel whom the King had recommended to them ; which they did raise to the number of a thousand men.

  2. 2

    Also a form of beginobsoletesimple past of begin

    When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We've no less days to sing God's praise, Than when we first begun.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having began.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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