worn
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /wɔɹn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɔːn/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /wo(ː)ɹn/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /woən/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
- Homophone: warn (horse–hoarse merger)
Adjective
[edit]worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)
- Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
- 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
- Upon this, an unhappy-looking woman, in a sort of mourning, neat, but sadly worn, hid her face behind a meagre bundle, and was heard to sob.
- Worn out; exhausted.
- 1889, The Wesley Naturalist, volume 2, page 143:
- Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit.
Translations
[edit]damaged and shabby from too much use
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Verb
[edit]worn
- past participle of wear
Synonyms
[edit]- worne (obsolete)
Derived terms
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]worn
- Alternative form of weren
Old English
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]worn m
- great many, multitude
- crowd, swarm, band, flock
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
- Sē þonne þisne wealsteal · wīse ġeþōhte
ond þis deorce līf · dēope ġeondþenċeð,
frōd in ferðe, · feor oft ġemon
wælsleahta worn, · ond þās word ācwið:- Then he deeply thinks over this wall-place
and this dark life with wise thought,
shrewd in mind, oft recalls the long bygone
swarm of slaughters, and utters these words:
- Then he deeply thinks over this wall-place
Declension
[edit]Strong a-stem:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | worn | wornas |
accusative | worn | wornas |
genitive | wornes | worna |
dative | worne | wornum |
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “worn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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