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wood⋅en
[woo
d-n] 
–adjective
| 1. | consisting or made of wood; wood: a wooden ship. |
| 2. | stiff, ungainly, or awkward: a wooden gait. |
| 3. | without spirit, animation, or awareness. |
| 4. | dull or stupid. |
| 5. | indicating the fifth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary. |
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Wooden
Wood"en\, a. 1. Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding. 2. Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. --Collier. His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. --G. MacDonald. Wooden spoon. (a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. "We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus." --Macaulay. (b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies. Wooden ware, a general name for buckets, bowls, and other articles of domestic use, made of wood. Wooden wedding. See under Wedding.
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Language Translation for : Wooden
Spanish:
de madera,
German:
Holz-…,
Japanese:
木製の
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