woven
- adjective
- /ˈwoʊvən/
- She wore a stunning dress made of woven silk, intricately patterned and unique.
- woven wire
This is a fabric bag, like a woven fabric bag, really big bag.
- This is a fabric bag, like a woven fabric bag, really big bag.
- So this is the fine woven material here.
- But the one thing I picked up was the beautiful Bottega woven pouch in the bright shining red.
Examples
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Tweeds are a category of woven wools in these patterns.
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And that ribbon has a texture, the texture of a woven fabric.
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So this is the fine woven material here.
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It's like one of the woven looking ones.
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Love is woven into every aspect of our lives.
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This is a fabric bag, like a woven fabric bag, really big bag.
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So very interesting reflections that are woven into this story.
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That's part of what is woven into this pretty amazing book.
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And indeed, on this board you see more woven fabrics, more colours, more tailoring.
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One by one, the ripe fruit is tossed into stained baskets woven tightly from local grasses.
Synonyms
Closely joined so the parts are hard to separate
Cloth made by hand on a loom rather than by machine
Made by crossing strands together, like hair or rope
Woven closely together to make a pattern
Cloth made by crossing threads over and under in a simple pattern
Antonyms
Compounds
How Basketlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word woven comes from the old English verb weave, which means 'to cross and join threads', and you can see the same root in weaver. Think of a rug or basket where threads are crossed to make one piece; that is why 'woven' means 'made by crossing parts together into a single whole'.