threaden

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adjective

Made of or woven from thread.

OriginMiddle English threden →
Scrabble 12
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Meanings

adjectivethreaden (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableMade of or woven from thread.

    threaden fillet

    1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
    3 more examples

    Thy gloves they were made of a threaden stitch, Thou kept on thy hands to hide the itch; […]

    1811, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review

    That kindness plungeth him into a deeper bondage; the first was but a threaden snare, which he might break, but this is an infrangible chain of iron.

    1861, Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams

    Your feet in mouldy slippers, for your kibes, A felt of rug, and a thin threaden cloak, That scarce would cover your no-buttocks— […]

    1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

Origin

  1. Middle Englishthreden
  2. Englishthreaden

From Middle English threden, thredyn (“made of thread”), equivalent to thread + -en (made of).

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Anagrams

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APA

threaden. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/threaden

MLA

“threaden.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/threaden. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “threaden,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/threaden.

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