adj
Meaning 1
Grown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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Standard Lemma guide
waxen
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adj
Meaning 2
Made of or covered with wax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a waxen tablet
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adj
Meaning 3
Of or pertaining to wax.
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adj
Meaning 4
Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
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adj
Meaning 5
Easily molded, influenced, or bent; yielding, impressible.
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adj
Meaning 6
Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
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Usage: rare
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verb
Meaning 7
alternative past participle of wax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alternative, archaic, form-of, participle, past
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verb
Meaning 8
plural simple present of wax
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Usage: form-of, obsolete, plural, present
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adjective
Meaning 9
made of or covered with wax
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- waxen candles
- careful, the floor is waxy
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Synonyms: waxy
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adjective satellite
Meaning 10
having the paleness of wax- Bram Stoker
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor
- the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him
- a thin face with a waxy paleness
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: waxlike, waxy
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History
Etymology
From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxen, ġeweaxen, from Proto-Germanic *wahsanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną (“to wax, grow, increase”), equivalent to wax + -en (past participle ending).
From Middle English waxen (“made of wax”), from Old English weaxen (“waxen, made of wax”), equivalent to wax + -en (“made of”).
Equivalent to wax + -en (plural simple present ending).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: восъчен (vosǎčen) — of or pertaining to wax
- Catalan: cerós — of or pertaining to wax
- Ingrian: vahain — of or pertaining to wax
- Latin: cēreus — of or pertaining to wax
- Scottish Gaelic: cèireach — of or pertaining to wax
- Welsh: cwyraidd — of or pertaining to wax
- Catalan: cerós — having characteristics of wax
- Ingrian: vahain — having characteristics of wax
- Scottish Gaelic: cèireach — having characteristics of wax
- Welsh: cwyraidd — having characteristics of wax