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- [hyoon or, often, yoon]
- /hyun or, often, yun/
- /hjuː/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [hyoon or, often, yoon]
- /hyun or, often, yun/
Definitions of hewn word
- adjective hewn felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs. 1
- adjective hewn given a rough surface: hewn stone. 1
- verb with object hewn to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack. 1
- verb with object hewn to make, shape, smooth, etc., with cutting blows: to hew a passage through the crowd; to hew a statue from marble. 1
- verb with object hewn to sever (a part) from a whole by means of cutting blows (usually followed by away, off, out, from, etc.): to hew branches from the tree. 1
- verb with object hewn to cut down; fell: to hew wood; trees hewed down by the storm. 1
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Origin of hewn
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; Middle English hewen, past participle of hew
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Parts of speech for Hewn
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
hewn popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
hewn usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for hewn
adjective hewn
- grooved — simple past tense and past participle of groove.
- carven — carve
- carved — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- furrowed — a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow.
- graved — to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).
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