Meanings
- archaicliterarynot comparableConstituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood.
1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 34, And west winds, with muskie wing About the cedar’n alleys fling Nard, and Cassia’s balmie smells.
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But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan,Between a chasm of cedarn mountains riven,
1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, London: C. and J. Ollier, published 1818, Canto 12, stanza 33, p. 266Time is lame, and we grow weary In this slumbrous cedarn shade.
1849, Matthew Arnold, “The New Sirens”, in The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, page 72Far overhead the echoes of his voice hummed on awhile among the cedarn rafters.
1910, Lord Dunsany, “In Zaccarath”, in A Dreamer’s Tales,, London: George Allen, page 2211923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Hill o’ the Winds” in Love Story Magazine Volume 10, No. 2, 17 March, 1923, Chapter 2, “Do you,” said Romney shamelessly, “happen to know who the enchanted princess is who walks occasionally in yonder fair pleasance beyond the cedarn hedge?”
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveconsisting of or made of cedar
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French en cèdre
- en cèdremade of cedar
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cedarn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cedarn
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