pp. of fly: sometimes used to form hyphenated adjectives: far-flown, high-flown
verb
Flown is the past tense of fly, which is defined as when a person or thing moves through the air.
An example of flown is someone having taken a flight from New York to Los Angeles.
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flown
filled too full
Origin of flown
obsolete past participle of flowWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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flown
verb
Past participle of fly1
adjective
ArchaicFilled to excess.
Origin of flown
Obsolete past participle of flowTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
- past participle of fly
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Sentence Examples
- I've never flown before.
- The birds had flown, and their empty nests in the bare trees were filled with snow.
- Her little brown mate has flown away with the other birds; but Annie is not sad, for she likes to stay with me.
- 38), writing in the 6th century, indulges in a high-flown panegyric on the plant and its value.
- As she'd never even visited an airport much less flown, frequent traveler Betsy carefully told her the dos and don'ts while she printed her boarding pass.
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