worn

English

Etymology

By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /wɔɹn/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɔːn/
(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /wo(ː)ɹn/
(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /woən/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Homophone: warn (accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Adjective

worn (comparative more worn, superlative most worn)

damaged and shabby as a result of much use

Translations

damaged and shabby from too much use

Latin: trītus
Maori: nguture, ruha, ruwha, tāwekoweko, waikauere, pūnguru, pūnguru
Portuguese: gastado m, gasto (pt)

Swedish: sliten (sv)
Turkish: aşınmış (tr), yıpranmış, yalama (tr)

Verb

worn

past participle of wear

Derived terms

Translations

past participle of wear

Dutch: gedragen (nl)
French: porté (fr), usé (fr)
Galician: usado
German: getragen (de)
Greek: φοριούνται (forioúntai)
Italian: usato (it), indossato (it)

Japanese: 摩耗 (sıfat)
Portuguese: usado (pt), vestido (pt)
Romanian: purtat (ro) m or n
Russian: изно́шенный (ru) (iznóšennyj)
Spanish: usado (es), puesto (es), portado (es)

Anagrams

rown

Middle English

Verb

worn

Alternative form of weren

Old English

Alternative forms

ƿorn

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /worn/

Noun

worn m

great many, multitude
crowd, swarm, band, flock

References

worn in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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