wooden

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 trīwen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdən/

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• Rhymes: -ʊdən

Adjective

wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)

1. Made of wood.

   a wooden boat

   On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.

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   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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.

   • 2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry‎^[1], UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:

     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 […]

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

   wooden acting

Derived terms

• woodenness

Translations

made of wood

• Arabic: خَشَبِيّ‎ (ḵašabiyy)
• Armenian: փայտե (hy) (pʿayte), փայտյա (hy) (pʿaytya)
• Bulgarian: дървен (bg) (dǎrven)
• Catalan: de fusta
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木製 (zh), 木制 (zh) (mùzhì)

• Crimean Tatar: taqta
• Czech: dřevěný (cs)
• Dutch: houten (nl)
• Esperanto: ligna (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: puinen (fi)
• French: en bois, boisé (fr)
• Friulian: legnôs
• Galician: de madeira
• German: hölzern (de), Holz-, hölzern (de)
• Greek: ξύλινος (el) (xýlinos)

  Ancient: ξύλινος (xúlinos), ξυλικός (xulikós), κάλινος (kálinos), ἔγξυλος (énxulos), δορήϊος (dorḗïos); (made of wooden planks) δουράτεος (douráteos), δούρειος (doúreios), δούριος (doúrios)

• Italian: di legno, ligneo (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish: darîn (ku)
• Latin: ligneus (la)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: medinis
• Luxembourgish: hëlzen
• Macedonian: дрвен m (drven)
• Old English: trīwen
• Persian: چوبی‎ (fa) (čubi), چوبین‎ (fa) (čubin)
• Polish: drewniany (pl)
• Portuguese: lenhoso (pt), de madeira
• Romanian: lemnos (ro), de lemn
• Russian: деревя́нный (ru) (derevjánnyj)
• Slovene: lesén (sl) m
• Spanish: de madera
• Swedish: trä-
• Telugu: కలప (te) (kalapa)
• Turkish: tahta (tr)

figuratively

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呆板 (zh) (dāibǎn)

• Dutch: houterig (nl)
• Finnish: puiseva (fi)
• French: raide (fr)
• German: hölzern (de)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: дрвен (drven)
• Russian: деревя́нный (ru) (derevjánnyj)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: odun (tr)

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