wooden

English Online Dictionary. What means wooden‎? What does wooden mean?

English

Alternative forms

• wodden (obsolete)

Etymology

From wood +‎ -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdən/
• Rhymes: -ʊdən

Adjective

wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)

1. Made of wood.
2. (figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Ewondo

Yola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wuːˈdiːn/

Adjective

wooden

1. wooden

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96