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gowned

/ɡaʊnd/

gowned adjective: wearing a gown. Also the simple past and past participle of gown.

Adjective

gowned (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a gown.
    • Deliberately, almost ‘augustly,’ the gowned and mortar-boarded figures followed one another through the great red turnstile and filed into the chamber beyond.1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 18, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode
    • The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 2
    Synonyms:
    begowned

Also used as

gowned is also the simple past and past participle of gown.

Synonyms of gowned

Forms of gowned

alternative form (archaic)gownd

Origin of gowned

From gown + -ed.

Words formed from gowned

Words that rhyme with gowned

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Questions about gowned

What does gowned mean?
Gowned means wearing a gown.
What part of speech is gowned?
Gowned is an adjective.
How do you pronounce gowned?
Gowned is pronounced /ɡaʊnd/.

Words near gowned in the dictionary

  1. gown
  2. gownboy
  3. gownboys
  4. gownd
  5. gownds
  6. gowned
  7. gownie
  8. gownies
  9. gowning
  10. gownless
  11. gownlet

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