Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

drawn

/dɹɔn/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.53 in modern English

Syllables: drawn
IPA: /dɹɔn/

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

past participle of draw

adj

adj

adj

Undecided; having no definite winner and loser; at a draw.

adj

Pulled, towed, or extracted in the specified fashion.

Example Sentences

"The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read."
"The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form."
"tractor-drawn implement"

Etymology

Morphologically draw + -n.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: draw

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /dɹɔn/
British English: /dɹɔːn/

Inflected Forms

more drawn (comparative) most drawn (superlative)

Derived Forms

airdrawn drawnness finedrawn indrawn outdrawn roughdrawn undrawn

Phrases

drawn butter hand-drawn

Frequently Paired Words

drafted draughted

Synonyms

careworn weary haggard drawn woeworn tied raddled worn

Rhymes With

gone hands-on sean dawn lawn withdrawn shawn shaun undergone pawn vaughan braun

Questions

How do you pronounce drawn?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɹɔn/.
What does drawn mean?: past participle of draw
Where does drawn come from?: Morphologically draw + -n.

How to pronounce drawn

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