What part of speech is laden?

Laden can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. laden is a verb, present, 1st person singular of laden (infinitive).
  • 2. laden is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. laden is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • laden 
    more laden
    most laden
  • Positive: laden 
  • Comparative: more laden
  • Superlative: most laden

What does laden mean?

Definitions

Adjective

laden - burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure"
laden - filled with a great quantity; "a tray loaded with dishes"; "table laden with food"; "`ladened' is not current usage"

Verb

lade - fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"
lade - remove with or as if with a ladle; "ladle the water out of the bowl"

Examples of laden

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Laden with grief.
2. adj. Table laden with food.
3. adj. The bedroom was laden with beautiful ornaments.
4. adj. The branches were laden with oranges.
5. adj. The table was laden with a large range of food and drink.
6. adj. After dinner, eaten, let it be confessed, with more haste and less accompaniment of talk than usual, the parlor doors were opened, and there stood the Christmas tree in a glow of light, its wonderful branches laden with all manner of strange fruits.
7. adj. In the fervour of their joy they went to pay their adoration to the Nymphs, carrying vine-branches laden with clusters of grapes, as first-fruit offerings of the vintage.
8. adj. Here and there were lofty vines, thickly laden with clusters and climbing up the pear and apple trees, whose own fruit ripened beside the black grapes.
9. adj. We ambushed several hundred of their new J-37 robots behind enemy lines in a staging area and we destroyed them all by sending a herd of explosive laden sheep through their encampment.
10. adj. When thus the prophet Helenus I hail, / "Troy-born interpreter of Heaven! whose art / the signs of Phoebus' pleasure can impart; / thou know'st the tripod and the Clarian bay, / the stars, the voices of the birds, that dart / on wings with omens laden, speak and say, / (since fate and all the gods foretell a prosperous way / and point to far Italia)."
11. adj. She could see the moon and the stars. When she saw a dark shadow glide between her and them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming above her, or else a ship laden with human beings.
12. adj. Oh! That rambutan tree is laden with fruit.
13. adj. Yanni's arms were fully laden with grocery bags.
14. adj. But it must be candidly admitted that the most attractive feature, to two healthy girls who had just tramped four miles through autumn air, was a table, set out with pale blue china and laden with delicacies, while little golden-hued ferns scattered over the cloth gave it what Anne would have termed "a festal air."
15. adj. Summer came and the pear tree was laden with pears.
Sentence  
adj.
Laden with grief.
Table laden with food.
The bedroom was laden with beautiful ornaments.
The branches were laden with oranges.
The table was laden with a large range of food and drink.
After dinner, eaten, let it be confessed, with more haste and less accompaniment of talk than usual, the parlor doors were opened, and there stood the Christmas tree in a glow of light, its wonderful branches laden with all manner of strange fruits.
In the fervour of their joy they went to pay their adoration to the Nymphs, carrying vine-branches laden with clusters of grapes, as first-fruit offerings of the vintage.
Here and there were lofty vines, thickly laden with clusters and climbing up the pear and apple trees, whose own fruit ripened beside the black grapes.
We ambushed several hundred of their new J-37 robots behind enemy lines in a staging area and we destroyed them all by sending a herd of explosive laden sheep through their encampment.
When thus the prophet Helenus I hail, / "Troy-born interpreter of Heaven! whose art / the signs of Phoebus' pleasure can impart; / thou know'st the tripod and the Clarian bay, / the stars, the voices of the birds, that dart / on wings with omens laden, speak and say, / (since fate and all the gods foretell a prosperous way / and point to far Italia)."
She could see the moon and the stars. When she saw a dark shadow glide between her and them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming above her, or else a ship laden with human beings.
Oh! That rambutan tree is laden with fruit.
Yanni's arms were fully laden with grocery bags.
But it must be candidly admitted that the most attractive feature, to two healthy girls who had just tramped four miles through autumn air, was a table, set out with pale blue china and laden with delicacies, while little golden-hued ferns scattered over the cloth gave it what Anne would have termed "a festal air."
Summer came and the pear tree was laden with pears.

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