different between woven vs woxen

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?wo?v?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??v?n/
• Rhymes: -??v?n

Adjective

woven (not comparable)

1. Fabricated by weaving.

   Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.

2. Interlaced

   The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.

Derived terms

• bewoven

Translations

Noun

woven (plural wovens)

1. A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.

Verb

woven

1. past participle of weave

   The spider had woven her web on a corner of the attic.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?v?n

Verb

woven

1. plural past indicative and subjunctive of wuiven

Middle English

Verb

woxen

1. past participle of wax

   • To every wight she woxen is so deere

     And worshipful, that folk ther she was bore

     And from hir birthe knewe hir yeer by yeere,

     Unnethe trowed they, - but dorste han swore -

     That she to Janicle, of which I spak bifore,

     She doghter nere, for as by conjecture,

     Hem thoughte she was another creature.