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Earthen

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Made of earth or clay: an earthen fortification; an earthen pot.

adj. Earthly; worldly.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Made of earth or mud.

adj. Made of clay (especially said of pottery).

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Made of earth; made of clay or other earthy substance: as, an earthen vessel.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. made of earth (or baked clay)

Word Usage

"It was not only because we had just passed through our seven lean years, cooking in earthen vessels, eating black bread on holidays and wearing cotton; it was chiefly because these wooden chairs and tin pans were American chairs and pans that they shone glorious in our eyes."

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

earth stone dirt clay mud

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

worthen

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

matchwood field-stone multiway fresh-made earthern