Laden Meaning
/ˈleɪdən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjWeighed down with a load, burdened.
adjHeavy.
Sentence Examples
The bedroom was laden with beautiful ornaments.
The branches were laden with oranges.
Oh! That rambutan tree is laden with fruit.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The truck was ____ with heavy boxes, making it difficult to drive uphill.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ship was heavily ____ with exotic spices and fine silks when it finally arrived at the busy port.
Word Origin & History
See lade.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal."
— 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
"When applied to other persons, the idea of comfort is an intuitive measure of trustworthiness, reliability, and predictability in a polycentric world that managers often find troubling, ambiguous, and anxiety-laden."
— 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 13:
"Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…]."
— 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
"The grass is smoothly cut; the trees are carefully pruned; the flowers, ladening the dreamy air with their perfume, are arranged in studied groups of exquisitely blended colors."
— 1889, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 54, number 8, page 357:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The truck was ____ with heavy boxes, making it difficult to drive uphill.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ship was heavily ____ with exotic spices and fine silks when it finally arrived at the busy port.