OK

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.

Verb

1. To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.
2. To confirm by activating a button marked OK.

Adj

1. All right, acceptable, permitted.
2. Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
3. Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
4. In good health or a good emotional state.

Adv

Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.

Intj

1. Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
2. 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.
4. Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
5. Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.

Name

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

Concepts

OK

bien

bon

d'accord

d’accord

pas mal

accord

feu vert

Yole OK

parfait

trés bien

“Ok”

suffisamment

ça suffit

favorable

normal

satisfaisant

digne de confiance

en sécurité

sûr

oui

alors

dans ce cas

eh bien

compris

permis

pouvoir

ça va

acceptable

correct

passable

valider

approuver

aval

avaliser

convenablement

correctement

entendu

bénédiction

Ernst August Friedrich Ruska

okey

Lawton

Oklahoma

Tulsa

être tiguidou

ok

approbation

autorisation

consentement

imprimatur

sanction

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌəʊˈkeɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.
The Choctaw word oke, okeh (“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explain OK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally, okeh was the most common etymology of okay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston's O.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in a pidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.