sown
/səʊn/US/soʊn/
sown is the past participle of sow.
Meaning of sow
Verb
sow (third-person singular simple present sows, present participle sowing, simple past sowed, past participle sown)
- To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
- When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
- To spread abroad; to propagate.
- as you sow, so shall you reap
- To scatter over; to besprinkle.
- The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, […] and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […]...
Noun
sown (uncountable)
Origin of sown
Morphologically sow + -n.
Words formed from sown
Phrases with sown
Words that rhyme with sown
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- moan
- throne
- atone
- clone
- crone
- prone
- depone
- hone
- loan
- cologne
- condone
- disenthrone
- disown
- eau de cologne
- enthrone
- groan
- intone
- roan
- Sloan
- Sloane
- thrown
- unknown
- bemoan
- cobblestone
- Copplestone
- grown
- joan
- known
- none
- overgrown
- pension
- phone
- postpone
- redstone
- sone
- Stallone
- answer phone
- arthron
- beknown
- cauterizing stone
- compone
- crosne
- crown
- cuboidal bone
- cuttlefish bone
- Ediphone
- enzone
- flown
Questions about sown
- What does sown mean?
- Sown means cultivated land inhabited by sedentary agriculturalists, in contrast to the nomad pastoralists of the steppe or desert.
- What is sown the past participle of?
- Sown is the past participle of sow.
- What part of speech is sown?
- Sown is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sown?
- Sown is pronounced /soʊn/ (US).
Words near sown in the dictionary
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