oaken
- adjective
- /ˈoʊkən/
- "Sunlight poured hot across the oaken board, turning the polished wood to gold.
- oaken door
- oaken desk
- oaken pew
Examples
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We pushed open the oaken door.
Fiction book (1994) -
'Drink fresh mountain water from oaken buckets.'
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Karo walked away from the window, went to the oaken board, and sat.
Fiction book (1992) -
The bird was perched atop my old oaken desk, still in that room.
Fiction book (2002) -
The way was steep but free of all impediments, and I soon found myself before the great oaken doors of Castle Frankenstein.
Fiction book (2002) -
"Harry was adjusting his shoulder holster when someone knocked on the oaken door of his beam-ceilinged room.
Fiction book (2002) -
Anna took three sheets of yellowing stationery from her father-in-law's oaken lap desk and hoped it would be enough.
Fiction book (1999) -
The tracks led on until the cavern narrowed again and then led to a broad, oaken double door, perhaps twenty feet wide and fifteen feet high; the size of a trolley.
Fiction book (2001) -
The antique shop was filled with beautiful oaken furniture, each piece carefully crafted from oak wood.
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He admired the intricate carvings on the oaken cabinet that had been passed down through generations.
Synonyms
How Wooden
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oaken comes from the simple word oak plus the ending -en, which means 'made of', as in wooden or golden. So an oaken chest is simply a chest made of strong oak wood.