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Definition: Oaken |
OakenAdjective1. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree; "a solid oak table"; "the old oaken bucket". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "oaken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonym: OakenSynonym: oak (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Oaken |
| English words defined with "oaken": oak ♦ Shillelah. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "oaken": CLUB LAW ♦ SHILLALEY. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "oaken": robust. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Tables, chairs and oaken chests would have suited Jesus best. (Jesus Christ Superstar; writing credit: Tim Rice) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Olden Oaken Bucket (1941) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Farmers return to old oaken bucket as drought drains wells.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Old oaken bucket.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Oaken" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oaken" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
old oaken bucket | 7 |
oaken | 5 |
bucket oaken | 2 |
barrel oaken | 2 |
oaken paul | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "oaken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lisi (oak, oaky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дъбов (oak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 橡木 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dubový (chaparral, oak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eiken (oak), eikehouten (oak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kverka (oak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ساخته شده ازچوب بلوط, بلوطی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tamminen (oak, of oak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | eichen- (oak), eichen (calibrate, gage, oaks, to gauge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κηκίσ, δρύινοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tölgybõl készült. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | di quercia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dy gharree, darragh (oak, oak grove, oak wood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oakenay galha de carvalho (oak gall, oak-nut, oak-wood), de carvalho (oaky), carvalhal (oak). (various references) de stejar. (various references) дубовый (oak, oaky). (various references) od hrastovine, hrastov (oak), dubov. (various references) de roble (oak, oaky). (various references) av ek (oak). (various references) ที่ทำจากไม้โอ๊ก. (various references) meşeden yapılmış, meşe kaplama, meşe (oak). (various references) дубовий (oak, oaky). (various references) bằng gỗ sồi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | quernus. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Oaken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akeen, Aken, Eijken, Ijafen, maken, naken, oafen, oaka, Oakdeane, Oakden, Oakdene, oake, Oakensen, Oaklea, oamen, oaoe, oasen, Ocken, ogadeni, Ohakea, okae, okane, okeh, oken, Okin, Okon, ookey, oskin, oucin, raken, saken, soaken. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "oaken" (pronounced 'Oak"en'): Affrighten, Baken, Barken, Bedizen, Beechen, Bequethen, Birchen, Bolden, Boughten, boxen, Bracken, Breaden, Cheapen, Cheven, Chicken, Closen, Coarsen, Cosen, Crooken, Deafen, Dusken, Embolden, Encolden, Fielden, flaxen, Fleeten, Floren, Flowen, Fordrunken, foreshorten, Foughten, Fraken, freshen, frighten, Furzen, Geten, Gilden, Glassen, Glazen, Gliden, groschen, harken, hearten, heighten, hempen, Henen, laden, leaden, Leten, Leven. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-n-o" | |
-1 letter: aeon, kane, kaon, keno, koan. | |
-2 letters: ane, eon, kae, kea, ken, koa, nae, oak, oka, oke, one. | |
-3 letters: ae, an, en, ka, na, ne, no, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-n-o" | |
+1 letter: awoken. | |
+2 letters: kaoline, kokanee, nonpeak, sokeman. | |
+3 letters: ankylose, backbone, banknote, corncake, forerank, forsaken, hawknose, kakemono, kakiemon, kaolines, knowable, kokanees, novalike, overrank, reawoken, takedown, unsoaked. | |
+4 letters: anklebone, ankylosed, ankyloses, antismoke, backbones, banknotes, breakdown, cankerous, corncakes, corncrake, enokidake, foreranks, foreshank, hawknoses, kakemonos, kakiemons, kalanchoe, kaolinite, lakefront, moonquake, nonmarket, nonskater, outranked, overdrank, overtaken, resoaking, shakedown, snakeroot, snowflake, snowmaker, spokesman, takedowns, uncloaked, urokinase, womanlike. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 61 6B 65 6E |
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