woolen
/ˈwʊlən/
woolen adjective: made of wool.
Adjective
woolen (not comparable)
- Made of wool.
- In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of...1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The...
- Of or relating to wool or woolen cloths.
- woolen manufactures
- a woolen mill
Noun
woolen (plural woolens)
- An item of clothing made from wool.
- Put all the woolens in this basket.
- American woolens could not compete with British fabrics when quality was important.1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 240
Proper noun capitalized: Woolen
Woolen (plural Woolens)
- A surname.
woolen meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Arabic
woolen in Hindi
- woolen, made of wool
- ऊनी ūnī
woolen in Tamil
- கம்பளித் துகில், கம்பளி நூல்
woolen in Telugu
- made of wool
- ఉన్ని unni
woolen in Arabic
- made of wool
- صُوفِيّ ṣūfiyy
Examples of woolen in a sentence
- You know he ain't hatfishing – there's a glorious grey mane under that woolen number.
- She heard the men prepare to leave as she pulled the woolen knit soakers back up.
- Despite the blaze of sunshine, woolens were everywhere: tams, kilts, socks drawn up to knobby knees.
Forms of woolen
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative UK | woollen |
| Noun | |
| plural | woolens |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Woolens |
Origin of woolen
From Middle English wollen, wullen, from Old English wyllen, from Proto-Germanic *wullīnaz (“woollen”), equivalent to wool + -en. Cognate with Scots wollin, wolne, wowne (“woollen”), Dutch wollen (“woollen”), German wollen (“woollen”), Danish uldne (“woollen”), Norwegian Bokmål ullen (“fuzzy; woolen”).
Words formed from woolen
Words that rhyme with woolen
Questions about woolen
- What does woolen mean?
- Woolen means made of wool.
- What is woolen in Hindi?
- Woolen in Hindi is ऊनी (ūnī). See Woolen meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is woolen?
- Woolen can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce woolen?
- Woolen is pronounced /ˈwʊlən/.
Words near woolen in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: woolen (page history and authors); Woolen (page history and authors); ऊनी (Hindi) (page history and authors); Woolen (Tamil 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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