Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: laden
IPA transcription: [l'eɪdən]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: laden, loaded, ladened
    Meaning: filled with a great quantity; "a tray loaded with dishes"; "table laden with food"; "`ladened' is not current usage"
Usage examples
  • At length we entered a room where the atmosphere seemed laden with hot vapor.
  • I put the bunch laden with beasties on a small table, in the shade, before the open window.
  • However, as was my duty, I took with me ten camels, laden with rich presents for the Sultan.
  • They took in sail and hove to as they came up with the drifting boats, laden to capacity with survivors.
  • In October the nights are frosty, and then the meadows at sunrise, when every leaf is laden with crystals, are a fine sight.
  • So he entrusted to the messenger four pack-horses laden with precious things, and a white palfrey on which she was to ride out every day.
  • Had not Paulina been "weary, and heavy laden," bowed down by the burden of a false accusation, friendless, hopeless, from her very cradle?
  • "I rose this morning--very early, Mr. Bellew,--Oh! very early!" said Miss Priscilla, following Adam's laden figure with watchful eyes, "couldn't possibly sleep, you see.
  • The dragon they cast, the worm, o'er the wall for the wave to take, and surges swallowed that shepherd of gems. Then the woven gold on a wain was laden -- countless quite!
  • The figures of these rural sutlers could be seen creeping up the slopes, laden like bees, to a spot in the rear of the camp, where there was a kind of market- place on the greensward.