woolen
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
Definition of woolen
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(US, not-comparable)Made of wool.
“In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.”
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adj
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(US, not-comparable)Made of wool.
“In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.”
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(US, not-comparable)Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths.
“woolen manufactures”
“a woolen mill”
“a woolen draper”
“Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.”
noun
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(US)An item of clothing made from wool.
“Put all the woolens in this basket.”
“American woolens could not compete with British fabrics when quality was important.”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English wollen, wullen, from Old English wyllen, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz (“woollen”), equivalent to wool + -en. Cognate with Scots wollin, wolne, wowne (“woollen”), Dutch wollen (“woollen”), German wollen (“woollen”), Danish uldne (“woollen”), Norwegian Bokmål ullen (“fuzzy; woolen”).
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