begun

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈɡʌn/

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• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /bɪˈɡʊn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

begun

1. past participle of begin
   • 1807, Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.), The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. 3 vols. [each in 2 pt.]., page 717

     ... when he should take the sield, that city was persuaded to complete the regiment they had begun to form, under the command of a Colonel whom the King had recommended to them ; which they did raise to the number of a thousand men.

2. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past of begin [17th–20th c.]
   • 1790 (see Amazing Grace)

     When we've been there ten thousand years,

     Bright shining as the sun,

     We've no less days to sing God's praise,

     Than when we first begun.

• Bunge

• IPA^(key): [beˈɡun]

begun (nominative plural beguns)

1. begonia