# sown

Pronunciation: say "SOHN" US /soʊn/, UK /səʊn/

## Verb

1. Past participle of sow. — past participle of sow
   - Simple: Past participle of sow. Use it after have, has, had, or be, as in the seeds were sown.
   - _Once the seeds are sown, keep the soil damp until they sprout._
   - _The rumor had sown suspicion across the whole department._

## Noun

2. Especially in historical writing, cultivated land lived on by settled farmers, set against the steppe or desert of nomadic herders.
   - Simple: Farm land where people settle and grow crops, unlike the desert or grassland of wandering herders.
   - _The chronicle describes raids by steppe horsemen on the towns of the sown._
   - _Much of the region's history turns on the uneasy border between the desert and the sown._

## Origin

Formed from sow and the ending -n.

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