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leathern

leathern adjective: made of leather.

Adjective

leathern (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Made of leather.
    • For the doing of this matter, he ordered a great many leathern bottles and sacks to be got together; […]1806 [c. 20 BCE], Robert Arrol, transl., Cornelii Neoptis Vitæ Excellentium Imperatorum, translation of De viris illustribus by Cornelius Nepos
    • He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for...
    Synonyms:
    leather

leathern meaning in Urdu and Sanskrit

leathern in Urdu

چمڑے جیسا, چمڑے کا

leathern in Sanskrit

leathern, made of leather or hide
चर्ममय carmamaya

Examples of leathern in a sentence

  • [A] street door was torn open to admit four boys, with their leathern straps of books over their shoulders.1873, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Birth-day Gift”, in The Pillars of the House; or, Under Wode, under Rode. […], volume I, London; New...
  • Still more pleased was he when, inverting a leathern pouch over the end of the reed, and so filling it with the gas, he was able to send it soaring up into the air.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Those were the Real Conquests’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC...
  • Except for his leathern harness, covered thick with jewels and metal, […]1913 December – 1914 March, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “With the Yellow Men”, in The Warlord of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell]...

Synonyms of leathern

Origin of leathern

From Middle English letheren, from Old English liþren, from Proto-Germanic *liþrīnaz (“of leather, leathern”), equivalent to leather + -en. Cognate with Scots letherin, lethrin, West Frisian learen, Dutch lederen, leren (“leathern”), German ledern (“leathern”).

Words formed from leathern

Phrases with leathern

Questions about leathern

What does leathern mean?
Leathern means made of leather.
What is leathern in Urdu?
Leathern in Urdu is چمڑے جیسا, چمڑے کا. See Leathern meaning in Urdu.
How do you use leathern in a sentence?
[A] street door was torn open to admit four boys, with their leathern straps of books over their shoulders.
What part of speech is leathern?
Leathern is an adjective.

Words near leathern in the dictionary

  1. leathermakers
  2. leathermaking
  3. leatherman
  4. Leathermans
  5. leathermen
  6. leathern
  7. leathern conveniencies
  8. leathern conveniency
  9. leatherneck
  10. leathernecks
  11. Leatheroid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leathern (page history and authors); leathern (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); चर्ममय (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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