earthen
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˈɜrθən/
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- Green fire crackled in an earthen fireplace and danced atop torches mounted on the walls.
- earthen dam
- earthen mound
- earthen embankment
So what they would do is they'd have these buckets and they build like earthen mounds and pyramids in the Amazon.
- So what they would do is they'd have these buckets and they build like earthen mounds and pyramids in the Amazon.
- There below, in the narrow earthen courtyard, half naked children were at play.
Examples
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Before him was the low earthen altar in the shape of a crescent, horns to the east.
Academic text (2005) -
Yes, it is an earthen pot placed exactly under the spout of the base.
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The subsequent French attack destroyed the earthen walls of his capital.
Academic text (2003) -
God help me, I buried her in the earthen floor of the fruit cellar.
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The bodies are buried on the Roberts' Farm in an earthen dam.
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Here we follow our Indian guide as we walk through the earthen streets, past adobe homes.
Academic text (2000) -
We drove on past artillery emplacements, past earthen walls that rose ten or twelve feet.
Fiction book (1994) -
"The girl, sitting on the floor beside him, held an earthen bowl of some sharp-smelling concoction.
Fiction book (1995) -
They built massive earthen mounds that were like pyramids but flat on top and built these entirely by hand.
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The artist carefully shaped the earthen vase, molding it with her hands before placing it in the kiln.
Synonyms
13
3.4
Having the smell, color, or taste of soil
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Earthen comes from the simple word earth meaning 'the ground' and the ending -en that turns a word into an adjective meaning 'made of'. So an earthen pot, floor, or vase is literally made from the ground or from baked clay.