Wooden Meaning
/ˈwʊdn̩/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjMade of wood.
adjAs if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
Sentence Examples
The hermit lived in a wooden hut.
I'd rather live in a wooden house.
It is the oldest wooden building in existence.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The cracked old ____ chair creaked loudly when I sat on it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She bought a small ____ box to store her jewelry and several other small several items on her nightstand today.
Word Origin & History
PIE word *dwóh₁ From wood + -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The cracked old ____ chair creaked loudly when I sat on it.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She bought a small ____ box to store her jewelry and several other small several items on her nightstand today.