Rown
//ɹoʊn// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Obsolete form of rowan. alt-of, obsolete
Verb
- 1 past participle of row dialectal, form-of, obsolete, participle, past
- 2 Archaic spelling of roun. alt-of, archaic
"And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there."
Example
More examples"And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English rowen, from Old English rōwen, ġerōwen, from Proto-Germanic *rōanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), equivalent to row + -en.
Etymology 2
From Middle English rownen, variant of rounen, from Old English rūnian. More at roun.
More for "rown"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.