What does wooden mean?

Definitions for wooden
ˈwʊd nwood·en

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word wooden.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. woodenadjective

    made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood

    "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"

  2. woodenadjective

    lacking ease or grace

    "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"

Wiktionary

  1. woodenadjective

    Made of wood: "a wooden boat".

  2. woodenadjective

    As if made of wood (figuratively):

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Woodenadjective

    Etymology: from wood.

    Like a strutting player, whose conceit
    Lies in his hamstring, he doth think it rich
    To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
    ’Twixt his stretch’d footing and the scaffoldage. William Shakespeare.

    They used to vault or leap up; and therefore they had wooden horses in their houses and abroad. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

    Press’d with the burden, Cæneus pants for breath;
    And on his shoulders bears the wooden death. Dryden.

    The haberdasher stole off his hat that hung upon a wooden peg. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

    I’ll win this lady Margaret: for whom?
    Why, for my king: tush, that’s a wooden thing. William Shakespeare.

    When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. Jeremy Collier, of Confidence.

ChatGPT

  1. wooden

    Wooden refers to anything made, consisting of, or pertaining to wood, a hard, fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is commonly used in the construction of objects, buildings, or furniture. It can also metaphorically describe something or someone as lacking warmth, vitality, or flexibility.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Woodenadjective

    made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding

  2. Woodenadjective

    clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WOODEN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wooden is ranked #4702 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Wooden surname appeared 7,547 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Wooden.

    51.7% or 3,903 total occurrences were White.
    41.9% or 3,165 total occurrences were Black.
    2.9% or 224 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.1% or 164 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.7% or 57 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 34 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'wooden' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2874

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'wooden' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3134

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'wooden' in Adjectives Frequency: #385

Anagrams for wooden »

  1. Ewondo

  2. enwood

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wooden in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wooden in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of wooden in a Sentence

  1. Josef Stalin:

    Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

  2. John Harold:

    Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

  3. Martin Passingham:

    In the main hut there is stuff everywhere, a coal shovel beside the stove, jars and containers of food on the shelf, wooden spoons left on the kitchen bench, all of these things really do tell the story more thoroughly.

  4. Spike Milligan, The Goons:

    For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

  5. Kriti Sharma:

    People spend years locked up in chains, wooden stocks, or goat sheds because families don't know what else to do, and the government doesn't do a good job of offering humane alternatives.

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