on
pronunciation
How to pronounce on in British English:
UK [ɒn]
How to pronounce on in American English:
US [ɑːn]
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- Adjective:
- in operation or operational
- (of events) planned or scheduled
- performing or scheduled for duties
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- Adverb:
- with a forward motion
- indicates continuity or persistence or concentration
- in a state required for something to function or be effective
Word Origin
- on
- on: [OE] On is an ancient Germanic preposition, with relatives in German (an), Dutch (aan), and Swedish (å), and also connections outside Germanic (such as Greek aná ‘on’ and Russian na ‘on’)
- on (prep.)
- Old English on, unstressed variant of an "in, on, into," from Proto-Germanic *ana "on" (cognates: Dutch aan, German an, Gothic ana "on, upon"), from PIE root *an- "on" (cognates: Avestan ana "on," Greek ana "on, upon," Latin an-, Old Church Slavonic na, Lithuanian nuo "down from"). Also used in Old English in many places where we would now use in. From 16c.-18c. (and still in northern England dialect) often reduced to o'. Phrase on to "aware" is from 1877. On time is from 1890.
Synonym
Example
- 1. He was arrested on thursday .
- 2. Focus on what 's important .
- 3. But life has moved on .
- 4. Piracy happens on the internet .
- 5. We speculate on the markets .