worn

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

English

Etymology

By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɔɹn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɔːn/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /wo(ː)ɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /woən/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophone: warn (horse–hoarse merger)

Adjective

worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)

1. Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
2. Worn out; exhausted.

Translations

Verb

worn

1. past participle of wear

Synonyms

• worne (obsolete)

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Norw., rown

Middle English

Verb

worn

1. Alternative form of weren

Old English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /worn/, [worˠn]

Noun

worn m

1. great many, multitude
2. crowd, swarm, band, flock

Declension

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “worn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.