done
having finished or arrived at completion
How often you will meet it
Rank 200 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 115,821 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.055% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- having finished or arrived at completion also: through, through with certain to make history before he's doneit's a done deed
- cooked until ready to serve
done in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Of course, I have done all that.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Very little children have sometimes done remarkable work in the plays.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Brave woman! you have done your people and mine a service which can neither be weighed nor measured.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Look at my cousin, Gus Vanderpool--he made Keys twenty years ago and has never done a thing since.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Why should he take such a poor girl as you by the hand, as your letter says he has done twice?
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded · Samuel Richardson · Chapter 1