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語源

From wood +‎ -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from 中期英語 treen, from 古期英語 triewen.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈwʊdn̩/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA: /ˈwɵdn̩/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈwʉdn̩/
• 韻: -ʊdən

形容詞

wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)

1. Made of wood.

   a wooden boat

   On a recent windy day, hundreds of visitors climbed wooden stairs to take pictures in front of the glacier.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

   • 2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.

   • 2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry‎, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:

     The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie […]

2. (figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

   wooden acting

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