EATEN
What does "EATEN" mean?
The past participle of eat: consumed as food.
Meanings
- Past participle of eat: having been consumed as food. By noon the cake had been eaten down to crumbs.
- Past participle of eat: gradually worn away or corroded. The hull was half eaten by rust below the waterline. figurative
Word origin
Past participle of 'eat', from Old English 'etan'; the strong-verb pattern eat / ate / eaten descends from a shared Germanic root with German 'essen'.
Remember it
EATEN = EAT + EN: add the EN ending and the meal is already gone.
A little poem
The plate that held the feast says nothing now;
what's eaten leaves only a cleaner bow.
couplet
Wordplay
- Have you eaten the dictionary? Because you've taken the words right out of my mouth.
What it teaches
What is eaten becomes you; choose your inputs as if they were your future.
Quick facts
What does EATEN mean?
The past participle of eat: consumed as food.
Is EATEN a valid word?
Yes — EATEN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is EATEN?
EATEN has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does EATEN come from?
Past participle of 'eat', from Old English 'etan'; the strong-verb pattern eat / ate / eaten descends from a shared Germanic root with German 'essen'.
What can EATEN teach us?
What is eaten becomes you; choose your inputs as if they were your future.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.