earthen

[US]/'ɜːθ(ə)n/
[UK]/'ɝθn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. made of earth; made of clay; of or relating to the earth.

Phrases & Collocations

earthenware

earthen floor

earthen dam

earthen pot

Example Sentences

an earthen fortification; an earthen pot.

brazen and earthen pots

And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.

5 to 7 days' larve after hatching larvae mostly lived on copepod nauplii, copepodites and trochophore of Polychaeta in water of the earthen ponds, apart from feeding on particulate organic detritus.

and about his shelves a beggarly account of empty boxes, green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds, remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses, were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.

Real-world Examples

On an earthen floor in a dimly lit home in Bangladesh it can be a killer.

Source: The Economist - Technology

" 5. The entrails (contained in a five-pound earthen jar)" .

Source: Resurrection

Faint wheel tracks went into a crack between those earthen walls.

Source: The little cabin on the grassland.

Behold him, therefore, at the arched window, with an earthen pipe in his mouth!

Source: Seven-angled Tower (Part 2)

It was shaped like a circular cone, made of earthen bricks made hard in a fire.

Source: VOA Special December 2012 Collection

They make a rude kind of earthen and wooden vessels, and bake the former in the sun.

Source: Gulliver's Travels (Original Version)

Most dams are earthen embankment dams, but modern ones are built much differently  than this one was.

Source: Engineering Crash Course

And everyone in Korphe knew the legend of this listing wooden building buttressed with earthen walls.

Source: Advanced English 1 Third Edition

My earthen temple could hold you no longer— every moment it was on the point of breaking apart.

Source: Family and the World (Part 2)

Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine of various colours and fragrance, filling this earthen vessel to the brim.

Source: Selected Poems of Tagore

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