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wooden English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word wooden once they have reached the level B1 – Lower Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning wooden meaning

What does wooden mean?

Definitions in simple English

wooden Adjective

— A wooden object is made of wood. Please do not spill your drink on the wooden floor.

— A wooden movement is awkward or clumsy.

wooden

— adjective made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood a wooden box an ancient cart with wooden wheels

— adjective lacking ease or grace the actor's performance was wooden a wooden smile

Synonyms wooden synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as wooden?

wooden English » English

woody

wood

made of wood

xyloid

timbered

stiff

of wood

ligneous

wall

unpolished

tight

lifeless

expressionless

dull

dish

arborous

arborical

arboreous

arboreal

arborary

arboraceous

Topics wooden topics

What do people use wooden to talk about?

Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Wood

• What words describe something made of wood?
  wooden

Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building materials

• What materials are used to make a roof?
  roofing material tile roof tile tin roof tin sheet shingle wooden shingle asphalt shingle shake thatched roof thatch grass roof grass straw palm leaf sod canvas (tent)
• What materials are used to make a floor?
  flooring wooden floor linoleum tile floor dirt floor cement floor cow dung

Person Healthy Injure

Amputate

• What things are used by a person who has lost a limb?
  artificial limb wooden leg peg leg prosthesis

Daily life Food Food preparation

Cooking utensil

• What utensils are used to move, stir, mix and turn food?
  pancake turner spatula whisk stirring spoon wooden spoon meat fork spit mixer blender

Examples wooden examples

How do I use wooden in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We're building wooden houses.

I'd rather live in a wooden house.

It is the oldest wooden building in existence.

The garden was surrounded by a wooden fence.

There were a few large old wooden houses in the town.

This is a wooden house.

This is a wooden comb.

The old man named the wooden doll Pinocchio.

I have a wooden comb.

The village people built a wooden bridge across the river.

He carved me a wooden doll.

The Horyuji is the oldest wooden building in the world.

Wooden houses catch fire easily.

Wooden buildings catch fire easily.

He inherited an old wooden chest.

The hermit lived in a wooden hut.

Please use this wooden box in place of a chair.

An old wooden box served as table.

A wooden building can easily catch fire.

Movie subtitles

One with nothing in his coat sleeves, the other one shuffling around on those little wooden feet, if you could call them that.

Am I supposed to wet-nurse them wooden-head pilgrims across the plains?

Goodbye, black boy, don't take no wooden pork chops.

The arrow. A wooden shaft through her heart, just as I drove the stake through his.

Noah's arks and wooden soldiers.

A wooden shoe makes a better noise than your knuckles.

Dr. Hackenbush there's a woman she got a wooden leg?

Don't you take any wooden nickels.

So you haven't gotten the wooden-headed Mr. Wilkes out of your mind.

Who stood your wooden statue in front of a cigar store?

A little wooden boy.

A wooden boy!

Good night, my little wooden gold mine.

So long. Don't take no wooden money.

Can't wait until you see the wooden soldiers we made for you.

The wooden soldiers!

I carved a little wooden heart for you with my first penknife.

It would shrivel me wooden leg.

There are lots of wooden nickels in circulation.

It's shored up with wooden props.

If she were my mother's kitchen hag toothless and wooden leg, she'd still make the others colorless.

Yes, you are sulking, you wooden head!

Listen, Fido, this guy's got a wooden leg. Try it sometime.

WHO'S TO TAKE OFF THEIR WOODEN LEGS EVERY EVENING, MISS SUSAN?

Don't take no wooden money. - Good-bye, Sparky.

All done up in tattered green, waving a wooden sword.

Or may we cram within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?

You could have given me a wooden ring, it would have had the same value to me.

A wooden one or a small pebble?

The old wooden ceilings were replaced by brick vaults and the slender, soaring ribs met in pointed arches.

News and current affairs

The prisoners slept on wooden planks or iron bunks.

On my way to Novosibirk airport at 5a.m. on a morning when the temperature read minus 48 Celsius (minus 118 Fahrenheit) I saw a brightly-lit wooden hut.

In 1978, Typhoon Rita wiped out the fleet of handmade wooden fishing boats in a group of sea-dependant Philippine communities.

Today, a wooden pole marks each mass grave.

Only communist rulers could force millions of people to buy their complete works, filled with wooden ideas written in turgid prose.

Consider the old metaphysical puzzle: is a wooden boat whose planks are gradually replaced as they decay the same boat after all the planks have been changed?

His earliest plays were political, ridiculing the wooden locutions of communist rhetoric.

The authorities called it a suicide, but survivors say that, for fun, the guards unscrewed one of the wooden planks from the wall and dropped it on Stus's head as he lay sleeping.

The larger the stocks of wood on earth, in the form of living trees or wooden construction material in buildings, the less CO2 there is in the atmosphere and the cooler the earth remains.

Ever since he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the Peoples' Republic of China four years ago, Hu Jintao has remained infuriatingly wooden-faced and opaque.