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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Loden.
Pronunciation
Noun
loden (plural lodens)
- A thick waterproof cloth used for garments.
2011 [2001], Anthea Bell, transl., Austerlitz, Penguin, translation of original by W. G. Sebald, page 314:The first thing that caught my eye on this excursion was the number of grey, brown and green loden coats and hats, and how well and sensibly everyone was dressed in general, how remarkably solid were the shoes of the pedestrians of Nuremberg.
- A dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.
loden:
Adjective
loden (comparative more loden, superlative most loden)
- Of a dark green colour, like that of loden cloth.
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Anagrams
Dutch
- (now dialectal, mainly Hollandic) looien
Etymology
From lood + -en.
Pronunciation
Adjective
loden (not comparable)
- leaden, made of lead
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
loden m (plural lodens)
- loden (material)
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Norwegian Nynorsk
- lòden (alternative spelling)
Etymology
From Old Norse loðinn, from the Proto-Germanic past participle of *leudaną (“to sprout, spring up, grow”). Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²loːən/, , /²lodːən/, ,
Adjective
loden (neuter lode or lodent, definite singular and plural lodne, comparative lodnare, indefinite superlative lodnast, definite superlative lodnaste)
- hairy, shaggy, woolly
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Spanish
Noun
loden m (plural lódenes)
- loden
Swedish
Noun
loden
- definite plural of lod