oaken

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈəʊk.ən/

Definition of oaken

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness.
    “Captain Jemmy, taking up three bottles one after another and finding them all empty, ordered up three more, and drew his chair up to the hearth, where he sat kicking the oaken logs viciously with his long legs.”
    “His knuckles are tattooed, his hands the oaken tools of the boxer he still is, now as a coach.”

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Etymology

From Middle English oken (also eken), from Old English ācen, ǣċen (“of oak”), from Proto-Germanic *aikīnaz, equivalent to oak + -en (adjectival suffix). Cognate with Dutch eiken (“oaken”), German eichen (“oaken”), Icelandic eikinn (“oaken”).

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