Definition of sown

"sown" in the verb sense

1. sow, seed

place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth

"She sowed sunflower seeds"

2. sow

introduce into an environment

"sow suspicion or beliefs"

3. inseminate, sow, sow in

place seeds in or on (the ground

"sow the ground with sunflower seeds"

"sown" in the adjective sense

1. seeded, sown

sprinkled with seed

"a seeded lawn"

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Quotations for sown

If men had not slept, the tares had not been sown. [ Proverb ]

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown.
Shall pass on to ages; all about me forgotten.
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. [ Matthew Henry ]

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. [ Bible ]

What has been sown in the mind of the youth blooms and fructifies in the sun of riper years. [ Alfred Mercier ]

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. [ Colton ]

Born to be ploughed with years, and sown with cares, and reaped by Death, lord of the human soil. [ Byron ]

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

A little plot of ground thick sown is better than a great field which, for the most part of it, lies fallow. [ Bishop Norris ]

The Omnipotent has sown His name on the heavens in glittering stars; but upon earth He planteth His name by tender flowers. [ Richter ]

After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly. [ Richter ]

Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper. [ Hitopadesa ]

In the mind, as in a field, though some things may be sown and carefully brought up, yet what springs naturally is the most pleasing. [ Tac ]

To doubt is an injury; to suspect a friend is breach of friendship; jealousy is a seed sown but in vicious minds: prone to distrust, because apt to deceive. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us. [ Voltaire ]

The unknown! It is the field in which are sown our dreams, where we see them germinate, grow, and bloom. Who would live without the benefit of the incertitude granted to our miseries. [ E. Souvestre ]

Poetry, like truth, is a common flower. God has sown it over the earth like daisies, sprinkled with tears, or glowing in the sun, even as he places the crocus and the March frosts together, and beautifully mingles life and death. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

sown in Scrabble®

The word sown is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters sown:

SNOW
(33)
WONS
(33)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word sown

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In sown

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sown in Words With Friends™

The word sown is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters sown:

WONS
(48)
SNOW
(48)
 

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Words within the letters of sown

2 letter words in sown (5 words)

3 letter words in sown (7 words)

4 letter words in sown (Anagrams) (4 words)

Words containing the sequence sown

Words that start with sown (1 word)

Words that end with sown (6 words)

Word Growth involving sown

Shorter words in sown

ow own

ow sow

so sow

Longer words containing sown

disown disownable

disown disowned

disown disowner disowners

disown disowning

disown disownment disownments

disown disowns

oversown

resown

undersown

unsown