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boxen

boxen adjective: made of boxwood. Also the plural of box.

Adjective

boxen (comparative more boxen, superlative most boxen)

  1. Made of boxwood.
  2. Resembling box (the wood).

Also used as

boxen is also the plural of box.

Forms of boxen

comparativemore boxen
superlativemost boxen

Origin of boxen

From Middle English boxen, replacing earlier bixen, from Old English byxen (“made of boxwood”), equivalent to box + -en.

From box (“computer”) + -en (archaic/Germanic plural suffix), by analogy with VAXen and possibly also oxen.

Words that rhyme with boxen

Questions about boxen

What does boxen mean?
Boxen means made of boxwood.
What part of speech is boxen?
Boxen is an adjective.

Words near boxen in the dictionary

  1. boxed up
  2. boxel
  3. boxelder
  4. boxelders
  5. boxels
  6. boxen
  7. boxer
  8. boxer briefs
  9. boxer engine
  10. boxer engines
  11. Boxer Rebellion

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