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Weatherworn

Definition: Weatherworn

Weatherworn

Adjective

1. Worn by exposure to the weather; "a house of weathered shingles".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "weatherworn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

 

Synonyms: Weatherworn

Synonyms: weather-beaten (adj), weathered (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Weatherworn

English words defined with "weatherworn": Druid stones. (references)

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Digital Photo Gallery: Weatherworn
 

"Grave images 1" by Louise Ingram
Commentary: "Weatherworn grave with a relief of the crucifixion."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Usage Frequency: Weatherworn

"Weatherworn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Weatherworn" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Weatherworn

Language Translations for "weatherworn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i ngrënë nga koha (time worn), i gërryer nga koha. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zvìtralý (stale). (various references)

   

German

  

verwittert (timeworn, weather beaten, weathers). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εφθαρμένοσ από τον καιρόν. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

viharvert (gnarled, storm beaten, weather beaten, weatherbeaten, weathered, weather-stained). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eatherwornway.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

gasto pelo tempo (time-worn, weatherwear). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пострадавший от непогоды (weather-worn). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oštećen izlaganjem vremenskim prilikama. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Weatherworn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-n-o-r-r-t-w-w"

-2 letters: waterworn.

-3 letters: townwear, wreathen.

-4 letters: another, earthen, hearten, horrent, norther, nowhere, rewrote, terrane, thereon, thrower, warworn, waterer, weather, wetware, wheaten, whereat, whereon, whereto, wreathe.

-5 letters: aether, anther, atoner, atween, earner, entera, erenow, errant, ethane, harrow, hearer, heater, hereat, hereon, hereto, hetero, hornet, narrow, nearer, neater, nether, nother, ornate, ranter, rather, reearn, rehear, reheat, renter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Digital Art
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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