- past participle of weave.
woven
Americanverb
verb
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Explanation
Anything that's woven is made by braiding or intertwining threads or fibers. Your beautiful woven blanket is extra special because it was made by hand from local wool. A woven basket is made by interlacing strips of a material — dried grasses, straw, thread, or wood, for example — usually forming a circular base and solid sides. When something is woven, it has a solid form despite its seemingly fragile parts. A heavy woven rug started as individual wool fibers that had to be interlaced to form the thick mat beneath your feet.
Example Sentences
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Ayurveda is trusted by millions, backed by government-funded medical colleges and deeply woven into everyday life.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026
Under a chaotic canopy woven with vines and studded with fearsome spiked stems, the group crossed streams, waded through mud and picked off dozens of leeches.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
“Social-connection policy cannot be siloed, it must be woven into the fabric of how government and communities serve people.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 19, 2026
Even Friar Lawrence wears a vibrantly colored woven shrug over his clerical uniform.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
“Yes, these are bracelets I made from eleven of them woven together.”
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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