OK
Dictionary entry overview: What does OK mean?
• OK (noun)
The noun OK has 2 senses:
1. a state in south central United States
2. an endorsement
Familiarity information: OK used as a noun is rare.
• OK (adjective)
The adjective OK has 1 sense:
1. being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
Familiarity information: OK used as an adjective is very rare.
• OK (adverb)
The adverb OK has 1 sense:
1. an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
Familiarity information: OK used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OK (noun)
Meaning:
A state in south central United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Sooner State; Oklahoma; OK
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "OK"):
Red; Red River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana)
Neosho; Neosho River (a river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River)
Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)
Cimarron; Cimarron River (a river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River)
Canadian; Canadian River (a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma)
Arkansas; Arkansas River (a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River)
Tulsa (a major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river; once known as the oil capital of the world and still heavily involved in the oil and gas industries)
capital of Oklahoma; Oklahoma City (capital and largest city of Oklahoma; the economy is based on oil and livestock)
Muskogee (a town in eastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas River)
McAlester (a town in southeastern Oklahoma)
Lawton (a town in southwest Oklahoma)
Enid (a town in north central Oklahoma)
Bartlesville (a town in northeastern Oklahoma)
Platt National Park (a national park in Oklahoma having mineral springs)
Holonyms ("OK" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Meaning:
An endorsement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
O.K.; okay; okeh; okey; OK
Context example:
they gave us the O.K. to go ahead
Hypernyms ("OK" is a kind of...):
countenance; endorsement; imprimatur; indorsement; sanction; warrant (formal and explicit approval)
• OK (adjective)
Meaning:
Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
Synonyms:
okay; ok; o.k.; hunky-dory; fine; all right
Context examples:
an all-right movie / the passengers were shaken up but are all right / is everything all right? / everything's fine / things are okay / dinner and the movies had been fine / another minute I'd have been fine
Similar:
satisfactory (giving satisfaction)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
• OK (adverb)
Meaning:
An expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
Synonyms:
all right; fine; OK; alright; very well
