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oaken

/ˈəʊk.ən/

oaken adjective: made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness.

Adjective

oaken (not comparable)

  1. Made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness.
    • Captain Jemmy, taking up three bottles one after another and finding them all empty, ordered up three more, and drew his chair up to the hearth, where he sat kicking the oaken logs viciously with his long legs.1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Blue Pavilions
    • His knuckles are tattooed, his hands the oaken tools of the boxer he still is, now as a coach.2025 December 21, Mark Sappenfield, “English voters scatter from the center, strengthening extremes”, in The Christian Science Monitor
    Synonyms:
    oak, roborean, roboreous

oaken meaning in Urdu

oaken in Urdu

بلوطی

Synonyms of oaken

Origin of oaken

Inherited from Middle English oken (also eken), from Old English ācen, ǣċen (“of oak”), from Proto-Germanic *aikīnaz, equivalent to oak + -en (adjectival suffix). Cognate with Dutch eiken (“oaken”), German eichen (“oaken”), Icelandic eikinn (“oaken”).

Words formed from oaken

Phrases with oaken

Words that rhyme with oaken

Questions about oaken

What does oaken mean?
Oaken means made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness.
What is oaken in Urdu?
Oaken in Urdu is بلوطی. See Oaken meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is oaken?
Oaken is an adjective.
How do you pronounce oaken?
Oaken is pronounced /ˈəʊk.ən/.

Words near oaken in the dictionary

  1. Oakboys
  2. Oakdale
  3. Oakdowns
  4. Oake
  5. oaked
  6. oaken
  7. oaken towel
  8. oaken towels
  9. Oakenfold
  10. Oakengates
  11. oakenshaw

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