Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boarden

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: boar-d-en
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Made of boards or wood; wooden

Example Sentences

"After dinner, twenty rooms, each between sixteen and eighteen feet square, were allotted us by ballot, sixteen of which were laid with brick over the boarden floor."
"A domestic servant, native of North Devon, said: “There's a boarden box up there.”"
"And after dinner, by water to White-hall and there waited, till the Council rose, in the boarden gallery."
"Biddy nodded. 'I see Mickey's wans are puttin' in a boarden floor in the room,' she said."

Etymology

From Middle English borden, bordyn, burden, equivalent to board + -en (“made or consisting of”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: borden
Suffix: board

Rhymes With

fitzgordon

Questions

What does boarden mean?: Made of boards or wood; wooden
Where does boarden come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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