adj
Meaning 1
Having been worked or prepared somehow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Is that fence made out of wrought iron?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wrought
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɔːt/
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Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /ɹoːt/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/ɹɔt/ without the cot–caught merger
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cot-caught-merger: /ɹɑt/
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US: cot-caught Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Scotland: /ɾɔt/
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homophone: rort (non-rhotic)
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homophone: rot (cot–caught merger)
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rhymes with -ɔːt
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CMU ARPABET: R AO1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
simple past and past participle of work
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, form-of, participle, past, rare
Examples
- What hath God wrought?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of wreak
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a shaped handgrip
- the molded steel plates
- the wrought silver bracelet
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: shaped, molded
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
The past participle of Middle English worchen (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle (ġe)worht; cf. also the metathetic variant (ġe)wroht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked. Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: изработен (izraboten) — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Catalan: treballat — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Finnish: työstetty — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- French: travaillé — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- French: forgé — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- German: bearbeitet — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- German: gefertigt — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- German: getrieben — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- German: gehämmert — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Italian: lavorato — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Portuguese: forjado — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Russian: обрабо́танный (obrabótannyj) — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Russian: подгото́вленный (podgotóvlennyj) — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Sicilian: travagghiatu — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Sicilian: manijatu — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Spanish: trabajado — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Spanish: preparado — Having been worked or prepared somehow
- Spanish: labrado — Having been worked or prepared somehow
Real reading context