treen

treen

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹiːn/

Etymology 1

From Middle English treen, treon, treowen, equivalent to tree +‎ -en (“plural ending”).

Noun

treen

1. (obsolete) Alternative plural form of tree.
   • 1726, Torquato Tasso; Edward Fairfax (translator), Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Jerusalem. Done into English heroicall verse from the Italian of Tasso by E. Fairefax‎, page 195:

     Erminia's Steed (this while) his Miſtreſs bore / Thro' Foreſts thick among the ſhady Treen,

Etymology 2

From Middle English treen, from Old English trēowen (“of a tree, of wood, wooden”), from Proto-Germanic *triwīnaz, equivalent to tree +‎ -en. See trencher, truncher.

Adjective

treen (comparative more treen, superlative most treen)

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Pertaining to or derived from trees; wooden; made of wood.
   • 1674, William Camden, “Wise Speeches”, in Remains Concerning Britain: Their Languages, Names, Surnames, Allusions, Anagramms, Armories, Moneys, Impresses, Apparel, Artillerie, Wise Speeches, Proverbs, Poesies, Epitaphs‎, Charles Hopper, page 354:

     Theſe homely cups and diſhes pay truly for that they contain: I had rather drink out of treene, and pay gold and ſilver, than drink out of gold and ſilver, and make wooden payment.

   • 1670 October 15, John Evelyn, chapter XVI, in Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions‎, Second edition, Royal Society, page 75:

     To ſhew our Reader yet, that theſe are no novel Experiments, we are to know, that a large Tract of the World almoſt altogether ſubſiſt on theſe Treen Liquors; Eſpecially that of the Date,

Noun

treen (countable and uncountable, plural treens)

1. Household articles made of wood.
   • 1949, Edward Pinto, Treen; or, Small woodware throughout the ages, London: Batsford, page 1:

     References to treen are numerous in old English literature, particularly to chalices, cups, bowls, platters, and "services of treen".

2. (Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A large wooden platter.

Synonyms

• (household articles made of wood): treenware

Noun

treen (plural treens)

1. A territorial division in the Isle of Man.

Anagrams

• Enter, Enter., enter, enter-, entre, rente, terne

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English trēowen, trīwen; equivalent to tre +‎ -en (“made of”).

Alternative forms

• treene, treyn, tryen, tren, trene, trenne, treowene

Adjective

treen

1. Made of wood; wooden.
2. Pertaining to trees.

Noun

treen pl

1. (collectively) Items made of wood.

Descendants

• English: treen

References

• “treen, (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 May 2018.

Etymology 2

From tre +‎ -en (“plural suffix”).

Noun

treen

1. plural of tre