ashen
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈæʃ.ən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -æʃən
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English asshen, aisshen, esscen, from Old English æsċen (“made of ashwood”), equivalent to ash -en (“made or consisting of”). Cognate with Scots aschin, eschin (“ashen”).
Adjective
[edit]ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)
- Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
- An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]made of ash-wood
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English asshen, axen (“ash-colored; pale; lifeless”), equivalent to ash -en (“made or consisting of”).
Adjective
[edit]ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)
- Of or resembling ashes.
- A fine, ashen dust hung in the air.
- Ash-colored; pale; anemic
- His ashen face belied his claims of good health.
- Appalled; upset.
- Anaemic.
Synonyms
[edit]- ashy, cineraceous, cinereous
- (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of or resembling ashes
ash-colored; pale
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Etymology 3
[edit]From ash -en (verbal suffix).
Verb
[edit]ashen (third-person singular simple present ashens, present participle ashening, simple past and past participle ashened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To turn into ash; make or become ashy
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become pale
Anagrams
[edit]Yola
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English asshen, asken, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ashen
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23
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