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say it: TAY-kuhn
taken is an adjective meaning "understood in a certain way; made sense of". It is pronounced /ˈteɪkən/ — TAY-kuhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
understood in a certain way; made sense of
“a word taken literally”
“a smile taken as consent”
“an open door interpreted as an invitation”
be affected with an indisposition
“the child was taken ill”
“couldn't tell when he would be taken drunk”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for taken come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.