eaten

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb take in solid food
  2. verb eat a meal; take a meal
  3. verb take in food; used of animals only

Etymology

From Middle English eten, from Old English eten, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etanaz; morphologically eat + -en.

Synonyms

eat

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