Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To think; suppose.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Doubt; conjecture.
- To be of opinion; have the notion; think; imagine; suppose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Obs. or Poetic To think; to imagine; to fancy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
suppose ,imagine ; tothink ,believe . - verb dated To
expect ,hope orwish . - noun obsolete
Doubt ;conjecture .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
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I think alcohol is the worst out of those 3, I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
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I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
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I think alcohol is the worst out of those 3, I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
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I think alcohol is the worst out of those 3, I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
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I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
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I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
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I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
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I think alcohol is the worst out of those 3, I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
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I think alcohol is the worst out of those 3, I've smoked for 30+ years and quit 13 days ago, it is hard yes, but mostly due to habit, and you can 'ween' yourself off the nicotine addiction part.
minerva commented on the word ween
...Miss Howe has reason to apprehend vengeance from me, I ween.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
January 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word ween
"But at the last, as a man may not ever endure, Sir Launcelot waxed so faint of fighting and travailing, and was so weary of his great deeds, but he might not lift up his arms for to give one stroke, so that he weened never to have borne arms; and then they all took and led him away into a forest, and there made him to alight and to rest him."
- Thomas Malory, 'The Holy Grail'.
September 12, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word ween
"O laborers, idle shepherds, come, a truth
I suspect once you've shifted
the blame to your flutes come undone,
I ween. No one knows how much
we've done to ourselves, nor I to each other,
cracked, before we were born."
- "The Queen's Apron" by John Ashbery, in Quick Question
October 11, 2014
qms commented on the word ween
Gwen makes her swevening schemes As sweetly on Sir Lance she beams. Good night, I ween. Good knight I've seen, Anon I'll seize you in my dreams.
October 26, 2014