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glassen

/ˈɡlɑːsən/

glassen adjective: made of or consisting of glass.

Adjective

glassen (comparative more glassen, superlative most glassen)

  1. Made of or consisting of glass.
    • From the castle calls Ileana, Refrain (Looking) through the glassen windows, (Looking) through the glassen windows: […]2012, B. Suchoff, Bela Bartok, Rumanian Folk Music
    • But I had a glassen vessel, of a narrow neck, weighing 1354 grains: […]2013, Allen G. Debus, The Chemical Philosophy
    Synonyms:
    glazen
  2. Resembling glass; glassy; glazed.
    • 1640 (first published), Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a friend to persuade him to join the wars
      And pursues the dice with glassen eyes.
    • Abreast of the players, he jumped down, seized one of the taws - it was a glassen alley - knuckled down, fired kibby at the clayers in the ring, and was back in his seat before you could cry "Jack Robinson".2004, John Coulson Tregarthen, John Penrose: A Romance of the Land's End

Verb

glassen (third-person singular simple present glassens, present participle glassening, simple past and past participle glassened)

  1. (transitive) To coat or cover (e.g. pottery, etc.) with glaze; make glassy.
    Synonyms:
    glaze

Synonyms of glassen

Forms of glassen

Adjective
comparativemore glassen
superlativemost glassen
Verb
third-person singular presentglassens
present participleglassening
past participleglassened
pastglassened

Origin of glassen

From Middle English glassen, glasen, from Old English glæsen (“made of glass”), from Proto-West Germanic *glasīn (“made of glass; glazen”). Equivalent to glass + -en (adjective suffix). Doublet of glazen.

From glass + -en (verbal suffix).

Questions about glassen

What does glassen mean?
Glassen means made of or consisting of glass.
What part of speech is glassen?
Glassen can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce glassen?
Glassen is pronounced /ˈɡlɑːsən/.

Words near glassen in the dictionary

  1. glasse
  2. glassed
  3. glassed-in
  4. glassed-off
  5. Glassel
  6. glassen
  7. glassened
  8. glassening
  9. glassens
  10. glasser
  11. glasseries

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