Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Made of earth or clay: an earthen fortification; an earthen pot.
- adj. Earthly; worldly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Made of earth; made of clay or other earthy substance: as, an earthen vessel.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. made of earth (or baked clay)
Etymologies
- Used before 1325 as erthen, from eorthene, presumably from Middle English erthe, eorthe ("earth"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“There he sat down to rest a while by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthen pitchers.”
“They put this water in earthen jars to cool, in order to render it fit for drinking, but it never becomes fresh and cold.”
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
“Here seems to be an allusion to the lamps which Gideon's soldiers carried in earthen pitchers, Jud. vii.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“The word of the gospel is preached by men like ourselves, men of like passions and infirmities with others: We have this treasure in earthen vessels.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“The blessing of the gospel is the treasure which we have in earthen vessels.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“God has wisely deposited the treasure in earthen vessels like ourselves, 2 Cor. iv.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“Though God had here a splendid retinue of holy angles about his throne, who were ready to go on his errands, yet he passes them all by, and pitches on Ezekiel, a son of man, to be his messenger to the house of Israel; for we have this treasure in earthen vessels, and God's messages sent us by men like ourselves, whose terror shall not make us afraid nor their hand be heavy upon us.”
“7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“In the room adjoining the kitchen the milk was cared for, as there were eleven milk-pans, an "earthen" pan and three "earthen" butter-pots.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘earthen’.
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Earth Words Are Easy
earth, earthquake, earthly, earthquakes, earthy, earthen, earths, earthenware, earth-shattering, earthworks, earthworms, earthbound and 43 more...
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[Open] Suffix “-en” Meaning “Made Of”
or Yet Another Thing I Learned from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
These are adjectives formed (in Old or Middle English) by adding the suffix -en to a noun representing (in all...woolen, wooden, silken, oaten, oaken, leaden, hempen, golden, flaxen, earthen, brazen, birchen and 24 more...
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rich words
auburn, aureole, relic, reliquary, aureate, umber, lyric, elegy, requiem, jacinth, sable, penumbra and 95 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, E
excoriate, exoskeleton, enclave, endemic, erstwhile, entwine, elliptical, élan, earflaps, earlobe, earthen, earthenware and 238 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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OK
One word from each of Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat as translated by Edward FitzGerald (1st edition)
awake, liquor, tavern, suspire, ruby, incarnadine, cup, blossom, forgot, herbage, verse, drum and 63 more...
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Soft
gentle, creme, violet, breeze, lavender, pure, dew, rose, milk, calm, cleansing, gentle and 74 more...
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delightful daylight
Words for concepts I love.
delicacy, delight, wonder, magnificence, awe, enchantment, reflection, refraction, overflowing, overwhelming, radiant, feline and 14 more...
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