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okeh

okeh is the dated form of OK.

Meaning of OK

Interjection

  1. Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
    • I promise to give it back. – OK.
  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.
    • OK, I'm thinking of a number…
    Synonyms:
    now, now then
  4. Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
    • You always do this to me! When we were at your mother’s, you said that… – OK, OK, …
  5. Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.

See all 15 meanings of ok

Forms of okeh

third-person singular presentokehs
present participleokehing
past participleokehed
pastokehed

Origin of okeh

Sometimes said to be from Choctaw oke, okeh (“it is so”). Probably simply a variant of OK.

Questions about okeh

What is okeh the dated form of?
Okeh is the dated form of OK.

Words near okeh in the dictionary

  1. OKed
  2. Okeden
  3. Okeechobee
  4. Okeechobee County
  5. Okefenokee
  6. okeh
  7. Okehampton
  8. Okehampton Hamlets
  9. okehed
  10. okehing
  11. okehs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: okeh (page history and authors); OK (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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