laden
adjective (laden); old past participle of lade
Everyday
- Carrying a heavy load; full of something. tree →
- Weighed down with a lot of something, often a worry or feeling. tree →
In the lessons
In stories and history: ships and carts laden with goods; in nature writing, trees laden with fruit or snow. In news and health, «sugar-laden» or «fat-laden» food means food with a lot of sugar or fat. Phrases: laden with, heavily laden, sugar-laden, guilt-laden.
Examples
- The ship was laden with gold and spices. tree →
- The apple tree was laden with fruit. tree →
- We came home laden with shopping bags. tree →
- Snow-laden branches bent towards the ground. tree →
- Sugar-laden drinks are bad for your teeth. tree →
- The camels walked slowly, heavily laden. tree →
- He came back laden with guilt after the lie. tree →
- TWO MULES well-laden with packs were trudging along. tree →
Note
Usually after a verb or with «with»: «laden with apples». Pronounced LAY-den. A little old-fashioned or literary; everyday words are «loaded», «full of». As a suffix: sugar-laden, debt-laden.
In Jewish tradition
It means loaded, as with the ten asses that Joseph sent to his father carrying the good things of Egypt. The prophets and writings also use it for a person loaded with something, such as silver or guilt for bloodshed, and for oxen heavy with produce.
Interpretation. The commentators read the gift as a sign of Joseph's love and his wish to honour his father. Proverbs' man "laden with blood" is read as a murderer whose guilt weighs on him, and Zephaniah's "laden with silver" as the merchants who will be cut off.
Examples
- And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way. (Torah GEN.45.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places; (Writings PSA.144.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall hasten his steps unto the pit; none will support him. (Writings PRO.28.17, JPS 1917) tree →
- Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are undone; all they that were laden with silver are cut off. (Prophets ZEP.1.11, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
Usually after a verb or with «with»: «laden with apples». Pronounced LAY-den. A little old-fashioned or literary; everyday words are «loaded», «full of». As a suffix: sugar-laden, debt-laden.
Early Modern English
Meaning
Carrying a heavy load; full of something. tree →
Then and now
Today "laden" is still used but is less common, and the sentences use the same sense as today. The form is an old participle of "lade", where we would now say "loaded".
Examples
- And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way. (Torah GEN.45.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- TWO MULES well-laden with packs were trudging along. (Three hundred Aesop’s fables / Translated by George Fyler Townsend) tree →
- And the villagers watched her return laden, and said to each other: (The Orange Fairy Book) tree →
Note
Today: loaded.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «laden» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «laden» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «laden» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «laden» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «laden» in the Early Modern English dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «laden» in the Early Modern English dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/laden/