wooden

English

Alternative forms

wodden (obsolete)

Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁

From wood +‎ -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdən/
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Rhymes: -ʊdən

Adjective

wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)

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[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
  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.
In such a case, you can make a very good case for wooden cases.
- 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:
  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 […]
(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.
wooden acting

Derived terms

wooden anniversary
wooden coat
wooden fish
wooden horse
wooden kimono
wooden language

wooden mare
wooden nickel
wooden nutmeg
wooden overcoat
wooden spoon
wooden spooner

wooden spoonist
wooden surtout
wooden wedge
Woodenbridge
woodener
woodenest

woodenheaded
woodenly
woodenness
woodentop

Translations

made of wood

Arabic: خَشَبِيّ‎ (ḵašabiyy)
Armenian: փայտե (hy) (pʿayte), փայտյա (hy) (pʿaytya)
Belarusian: дрэ́ўны (dréŭny), драўня́ны (draŭnjány), драўля́ны (draŭljány)
Bulgarian: дъ́рвен (bg) (dǎ́rven)
Catalan: de fusta
Chinese:
Mandarin: 木製／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)
Gothic: 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (triweins)
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)
Icelandic: tré-, úr tré
Italian: di legno, ligneo (it)
Japanese: 木製 (ja) (もくせい, mokusei)
Korean: 목조 (ko) (mokjo)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: darîn (ku)
Latin: ligneus (la)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: medinis
Luxembourgish: hëlzen
Macedonian: дрвен m (drven)
Old English: triewen
Persian: چوبی‎ (fa) (čubi), چوبین‎ (fa) (čubin)
Polish: drewniany (pl)
Portuguese: lenhoso (pt), de madeira
Romanian: lemnos (ro), de lemn
Russian: деревя́нный (ru) (derevjánnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: др̏вен
Roman: dȑven (sh)
Slovak: drevený
Slovene: lesén (sl) m
Spanish: de madera
Swedish: trä-
Telugu: కలప (te) (kalapa)
Tocharian B: oraṣṣe
Turkish: tahta (tr)
Ukrainian: дерев'я́ний (derevʺjányj)

figuratively

Bulgarian: вдървен (vdǎrven)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 呆板 (zh) (dāibǎn)
Dutch: houterig (nl)
Finnish: puiseva (fi)
French: raide (fr)
German: hölzern (de)
Japanese: 木偶の坊 (dekunobō), 無表情 (ja) (muhyōjō)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: дрвен (drven)
Russian: деревя́нный (ru) (derevjánnyj)
Spanish: acartonado (es)
Swedish: träaktig
Turkish: odun (tr)

Anagrams

Ewondo

Yola

Adjective

wooden

wooden
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4:
  An neeat wooden trenshoorès var whiter than snow.
  And neat wooden trenchers far whiter than snow.

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 96