gowned
/ɡaʊnd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of gown
Example Sentences
- "Deliberately, almost ‘augustly,’ the gowned and mortar-boarded figures followed one another through the great red turnstile and filed into the chamber beyond."
- "The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […]."
- "Pirates, buccaneers, the gowned ladies of the ancient pastoral – all the traditional subjects of imperial history – are among the images that take shape."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *gunader. Late Latin gunna Old French gounebor. Middle English gowne English gown English -ed English gowned From gown + -ed.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
ball-gowned
bed-gowned
be-gowned
dressing-gowned
evening-gowned
night-gowned
surgical-gowned
surgically gowned