earthen
pronunciation
How to pronounce earthen in British English:
UK [ˈɜ:θn]
How to pronounce earthen in American English:
US [ˈɜrθn]
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- Adjective:
- made of earth (or baked clay)
Word Origin
- earthen (adj.)
- early 13c., "made of earth;" see earth + -en (2). Not attested in Old English (where eorðen meant "of or in the earth"). Cognate of Old High German irdin, Dutch aarden, Gothic airþeins. Meaning "made of clay" is attested from late 14c.
Example
- 1. Then to this earthen bowl did I adjourn
- 2. Last week , the army corps of engineers exploded a three-kilometer-wide hole along an earthen levee in missouri .
- 3. We climbed to the crest of a hill up earthen stairs built into the hillside .
- 4. When sufficient precipitation over extended periods of time wash small earthen particles into the lowest points in the valley , a flat surface of fine sediment can form .
- 5. In combat outposts throughout fallujah , what had once been medium-sized houses were now ringed with sandbags , earthen barriers and barbed wire .