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cedarn

cedarn adjective: constituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood.

Adjective

cedarn (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, literary) Constituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood.
    • And west winds, with muskie wing
      About the cedar’n alleys fling
      Nard, and Cassia’s balmie smells.1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 34
    • But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
      Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

Examples of cedarn in a sentence

  • Between a chasm of cedarn mountains riven,1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, London: C. and J. Ollier, published 1818, Canto 12, stanza 33, p. 266:
  • Far overhead the echoes of his voice hummed on awhile among the cedarn rafters.1910, Lord Dunsany, “In Zaccarath”, in A Dreamer’s Tales,, London: George Allen, page 221:

Origin of cedarn

From cedar + -en.

Questions about cedarn

What does cedarn mean?
Cedarn means constituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood.
How do you use cedarn in a sentence?
Between a chasm of cedarn mountains riven,
What part of speech is cedarn?
Cedarn is an adjective.

Words near cedarn in the dictionary

  1. cedarbird
  2. cedarbirds
  3. cedared
  4. cedariiform
  5. cedarlike
  6. cedarn
  7. cedars
  8. cedars of Lebanon
  9. cedarstrip
  10. cedarstrips
  11. Cedarstrom

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