Dictionaries › English

earthen

Pronunciation: /ˈɝθən/

The English word “earthen” has 5 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Made of earth or mud.
  2. Made of clay.
  3. Earthly.

verb

  1. to provide or add soil to
  2. to make earthly or earthlike

Etymology

From Middle English erthen, urthen, from Old English eorþen, yrþen, ierþen (“made of earth”), from Proto-Germanic *irþīnaz. Cognate with Dutch aarden (“earthen”), German irden (“earthen”). By surface analysis, earth + -en (“made of”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “earthen” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.