# flown

Pronunciation: say "FLOHN" US /ˈfloʊn/, UK /ˈfləʊn/

## Verb

1. Past participle of fly. — past participle of fly
   - Simple: Past participle of fly. Use it after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _The pilot has flown this mountain route hundreds of times._
   - _By the time rescuers arrived, the helicopter had already flown back to base._

## Adjective

2. Suspended on lines in the space above a theater stage, raised out of view until lowered into the scene.
   - Simple: Lifted and held in the space high above a stage, out of the audience's sight.
   - _The flown set pieces hung in darkness until the second act._
   - _A flown chandelier descended slowly toward the actors below._

## Verb

3. Past participle of flow. Obsolete. *(obsolete)* — past participle of flow
   - Simple: Past participle of flow. An old word meaning that liquid has run or moved.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–2** — This is the past participle of the verb "fly," coming through Middle English "flowen" from Old English "flogen," the past participle of "flēogan" ("to fly").
**Meaning 3** — This is a past participle of "flow," coming through Middle English "flowen" (seen in derived verbs like "overflowen") from Old English "flōwen," the past participle of "flōwan" ("to flow").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/flown (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).