American English pronunciation

How to pronounce wooden

IPA transcription: ['wʊdən]

Hear “wooden” pronounced

['wʊdən]

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['wʊdən]

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['wʊdən]

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Adjective

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

    “a wooden box”

    “an ancient cart with wooden wheels”

  • lacking ease or grace

    “the actor's performance was wooden”

    “a wooden smile”

Usage examples

  • They placed it in a wooden box, and left it there for good.
  • They placed it in a wooden box, and left it there for good.
  • The closet door stuck a little as he pulled it open revealing a bare wooden floor covered on one side by a stack of old shoes boxes.
  • It consists of vertical ropes or chains supporting horizontal, historically round and wooden, rungs.
  • It is reputedly the largest surviving wooden viaduct in the world.
  • The closet door stuck a little as he pulled it open revealing a bare wooden floor covered on one side by a stack of old shoes boxes.
  • A person is cutting a piece of fish on a wooden block that is itself on top of a grill
  • The predecessors of this document were called, in order, "Strawman", "Woodenman", "Tinman" and "Ironman".
  • The tomb also contained the partly gilded rotten wooden coffin of the king.
  • Several noted wooden sailing vessels were built in Pukavik.