Meanings
- not comparableConsisting or made of the wood or bark of the beech tree.
[T]o the altar each man brought some goodly offering, // A beechen cup brimming with milky foam, […]
1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 1051 more example
Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves, And one by one with sighing sound Whispering fell the beechen leaves In the wintry woodland wavering.
1988, J.R.R. Tolkien, Song of Beren and Lúthien
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveconsisting of or made of wood of the beech tree
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*bōkīn
- Old Englishbēċen“made of beechwood, beechen”
- Middle Englishbechen
- Englishbeechen
From Middle English bechen, from Old English bēċen (“made of beechwood, beechen”), Proto-West Germanic *bōkīn, equivalent to beech + -en. Cognate with Dutch beuken (“beechen”).
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
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Dutch beuken
- beukenconsisting, or made, of wood or bark of the beech
Finnish pyökkinen, pyökkipuinen
- pyökkinenconsisting, or made, of wood or bark of the beech
- pyökkipuinenconsisting, or made, of wood or bark of the beech
German buchen
- buchenconsisting, or made, of wood or bark of the beech
Polish bukowy
- bukowyconsisting, or made, of wood or bark of the beech
Turkish kayın
- kayınconsisting, or made, of wood or bark of the beech
Cite this entry
beechen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beechen
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