wooden en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈwʊdn̩/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio
- /ˈwɵdn̩/ (British, Southern, Standard)
- /ˈwʉdn̩/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From wood + -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.
Meanings
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Made of wood.
On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.
The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]
2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:a wooden boat
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
wooden acting
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most wooden | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more wooden | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| wodden | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |
Deriveds
wooden surtout · wooden wedge · wooden fish · wooden nickel · wooden leg · wooden ear · wooden spoonist · wooden nutmeg · woodentop · woodenly · woodenest · don't take any wooden nickels · wooden anniversary · unwooden · wooden spoon · wooden-top · woodenhead · wooden overcoat · woodeny · wooden coat · wooden spooner · wooden horse · woodenness · wooden kimono · nonwooden · wooden language · wooden mare · woodenware · wooden-headed · woodenheaded · wooden-legged · woodenish · Woodenbridge · woodener
Translations (79)
be дрэ́ўны (made of wood) · ja 木製 (made of wood) · pt de madeira (made of wood) · fi puinen (made of wood) · tr odun (figuratively) · lt medinis (made of wood) · nl houterig (figuratively) · cmn 呆板 (figuratively) · got 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (made of wood) · hy փայտյա (made of wood) · ro de lemn (made of wood) · eo ligna (made of wood) · es acartonado (figuratively) · it di legno (made of wood) · grc ξύλινος (made of wood) · fi puiseva (figuratively) · gl de madeira (made of wood) · lb hëlzen (made of wood) · mk дрвен (figuratively) · fur legnôs (made of wood) · ar خَشَبِيّ (made of wood) · is tré- (made of wood) · ru деревя́нный (made of wood) · sh др̏вен (made of wood) · sv träaktig (figuratively) · sl lesén (made of wood) · fa چوبی (made of wood) · mh aļaļ (made of wood) · txb oraṣṣe (made of wood) · sv trä- (made of wood) · pt lenhoso (made of wood) · is úr tré (made of wood) · ca de fusta (made of wood) · fa چوبین (made of wood) · hy փայտե (made of wood) · nl houten (made of wood) · cs dřevěný (made of wood) · grc ἔγξυλος (made of wood) · tr tahta (made of wood) · de Holz- (made of wood) · grc δουράτεος (made of wood) · sh dȑven (made of wood) · grc δούρειος (made of wood) · bg вдървен (figuratively) · ota آغاج (made of wood) · izh puukas (made of wood) · pl drewniany (figuratively) · pl drewniany (made of wood) · izh puin (made of wood) · sk drevený (made of wood) · ru деревя́нный (figuratively) · te కలప (made of wood) · la ligneus (made of wood) · grc ξυλικός (made of wood) · be драўня́ны (made of wood) · el ξύλινος (made of wood) · ko 목조 (made of wood) · ang trīewen (made of wood) · uk дерев'я́ний (made of wood) · crh taqta (made of wood) · de hölzern (made of wood) · it ligneo (made of wood) · be драўля́ны (made of wood) · ja 木偶の坊 (figuratively) · fr boisé (made of wood) · cmn 木製 /木制 (made of wood) · ro lemnos (made of wood) · bg дъ́рвен (made of wood) · grc δούριος (made of wood) · de hölzern (figuratively) · grc δορήϊος (made of wood) · es de madera (made of wood) · mk дрвен (made of wood) · fr en bois (made of wood) · ja 無表情 (figuratively) · fr raide (figuratively) · kmr darîn (made of wood) · grc κάλινος (made of wood) · mi koropū (made of wood)