woolen

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈwʊlən/

Definition of woolen

4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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

  1. (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.”
  2. (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

  1. (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

  1. 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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