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lathen

lathen adjective: made from a lath or laths.

Adjective

lathen (comparative more lathen, superlative most lathen)

  1. Made from a lath or laths.
    • Shortly before ten o'clock a numerous cortège, consisting of a troop of horse in their full equipments, a band of archers with their bows over their shoulders, and a long train of barefoot monks, who had been permitted to attend, set out from the abbey. Behind them came a varlet with a paper mitre...1848, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches

Proper noun capitalized: Lathen

Lathen

  1. A municipality in Emsland district, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Forms of lathen

comparativemore lathen
superlativemost lathen

Origin of lathen

From lath + -en.

Questions about lathen

What does lathen mean?
Lathen means made from a lath or laths.
What part of speech is lathen?
Lathen can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near lathen in the dictionary

  1. lathelike
  2. Lathem
  3. latheman
  4. lathemen
  5. Lathems
  6. lathen
  7. lather
  8. lather up
  9. lather, rinse, repeat
  10. latherability
  11. latherable

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