What LADEN means
Filled with a great quantity.
That is the short version. Read on for how to say LADEN, how to use it, and a quick way to make it stick.
LADEN at a glance
- Word: LADEN
- Part of speech: adj
- Pronunciation: /ˈleɪdən/
- Meaning: Filled with a great quantity.
- Example: Table laden with food.
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How to say LADEN
Pronunciation: /ˈleɪdən/
Part of speech: adj
Say LADEN out loud a few times. Hearing your own voice say a new word is one of the fastest ways to remember both its sound and its meaning. Try saying it slowly first, then at normal speed, then inside a full sentence. If a part of the pronunciation trips you up, slow down on that part alone before putting the whole word back together.
LADEN in a sentence
Table laden with food.
Notice how LADEN fits into that sentence as adj. Try swapping in your own subject and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it does, you have understood the meaning of LADEN, not just memorized it.
Ways to remember LADEN
A new word sticks better when you do something with it, not just read it.
Say it, then use it. Repeat LADEN once, then build one sentence of your own with it today.
Connect it to something you know. Think of a moment from your own week where LADEN could apply, even loosely.
Spell it out. Cover the word, spell LADEN from memory, then check. This catches the letters your eyes skipped over the first time.
Come back tomorrow. A word reviewed a day later is far more likely to stay than one read once and left.
Notice it in the wild. Once you know LADEN, you will start spotting it in things you read. Each time you notice it, the meaning gets a little more solid.
Play a board with LADEN
A definition is easier to keep once you have used the word under a little pressure. Try today's word game, or search for more words like LADEN with the word finder. Missed a word along the way? The vocabulary quiz is a quick way to check what stuck, and missed words come back around for review instead of disappearing.
For teachers and parents
This page works well as a quick reference before a lesson or a homework check. Look up a word, read the definition and example together, then ask the student to build a new sentence with it. A student who can use LADEN correctly in a sentence they made up has learned it. One who can only repeat the definition back has not, yet.
A quick classroom routine: put LADEN on the board, cover the definition, and ask the class to guess the meaning from the example sentence alone. Reveal the real definition after a few guesses. It takes a minute and gets students reasoning about context clues instead of just memorizing.
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The letters in LADEN
- Length: 5 letters
- Vowels: 2 (A, E)
- Different letters: 5, all different
- First letter: L, last letter: N
Words built from the same letters
- ALIEN: Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.
- ALONE: Isolated from others.
- AMEND: Make amendments to.
- BLADE: Something long and thin resembling a blade of grass.
- BLAND: Lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting.
- BLEND: A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings.
- CLEAN: Free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits.
- DANCE: Move in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance.