furrow
UK/ˈfʌɹəʊ//ˈfʌɹoʊ/
furrow noun: a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
Noun
furrow (plural furrows)
- A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
- Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
- The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217
- A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
- When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
Verb
furrow (third-person singular simple present furrows, present participle furrowing, simple past and past participle furrowed)
- To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
- Cart wheels can furrow roads.
- Morn in the white wake of the morning star / Came furrowing all the orient into gold.1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part III”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 47
- To wrinkle.
- To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
- As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows, wrinkled her nose, and began to frown her befuddlement.
- Synonyms:
- frown
- to become furrowed
- If you were bold enough to ask Antonin Scalia questions, you had to be precise. Otherwise the bushy black brows would furrow, the chin would crumple and the pudgy, puckish body would start to rock, eager to get at you.2016 February 20, “Obituary: Antonin Scalia: Always Right”, in The Economist
Proper noun capitalized: Furrow
Furrow (plural Furrows)
- A surname.
furrow meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu
furrow in Hindi
- trench cut in the soil
- कुंड kuṇḍ
furrow in Tamil
- உழு, உழுசால், சுவடு, செல் தடம், ஆழ்வடு, பள்ளம்
furrow in Marathi
- the furrow or channel of a brass lampstand that receives the wick
- वात vāt
furrow in Telugu
- furrow
- చాలు cālu
More languagesFewer languages
- furrow in Malayalam
- ചാൽ cāl
- furrow in Kannada
- ಉಕ್ಕೆ ಸಾಲು, ನೇಗಿಲ ಗೆರೆ, ನೇಗಿಲ ಸಾಲು, ಆಳವಾದ ಸುಕ್ಕು
- furrow in Sanskrit
- सीता sītā, उल्लिखति ullikhati
- furrow in Arabic
- ثَلْم ṯalm
- furrow in Malay
- alur, kerut
- furrow in Persian
- شیار šiyâr
- furrow in Thai
- ร่อง rông
- furrow in Vietnamese
- rãnh, luống
- furrow in Myanmar
- ထွန်ကြောင်း htwankraung:
Examples of furrow in a sentence
- Apollo's belt, the iliac furrow, is also known as an athlete's girdle or Adonis belt.
- His physique is like a Roman god with very pronounced iliac furrows or Apollo's belt.
- The ox stood lolling in the furrow.
Synonyms of furrow
Forms of furrow
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | furrows |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | furrows |
| present participle | furrowing |
| past participle | furrowed |
| past | furrowed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Furrows |
Origin of furrow
From Middle English forow, furgh, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).
Words formed from furrow
Phrases with furrow
Words that rhyme with furrow
Questions about furrow
- What does furrow mean?
- Furrow means a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
- What is furrow in Hindi?
- Furrow in Hindi is कुंड (kuṇḍ). See Furrow meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is furrow?
- Furrow can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce furrow?
- Furrow is pronounced /ˈfʌɹoʊ/ (US).
- What is the plural of furrow?
- The plural of furrow is furrows.
Words near furrow in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: furrow (page history and authors); Furrow (page history and authors); furrow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वात (Marathi) (page history and authors); చాలు (Telugu) (page history and authors); ചാൽ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); furrow (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); उल्लिखति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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