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# sown

«sown» in Mova's school dictionary: **the past participle of sow: planted as seeds** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (sown; from sow)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sown is the past participle of sow: planted as seeds. The farmer has sown wheat in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#m1)

2) «Sown with» means spread with something, like a field sown with seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: seeds or fields planted, often a rate per acre. Farming and science: seeds are sown in spring; you reap what you sow (a saying: what you do comes back to you). Stories and old texts.

### examples

- The field was sown with 50 kg of seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x1)
- 3 acres have been sown. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x2)
- How many rows are sown? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x3)
- Each acre sown needs 2 bags of seed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x4)
- The beans were sown in neat rows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x5)
- Once the seeds are sown, water them gently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x6)
- The farmer had sown corn in the big field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x7)
- SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/#x8)

### note

Sow, sowed, sown (or sowed). Seeds or fields planted, often a rate per acre. Trap: do not read «sown» as «sewn» (with a needle). «Sow» (seeds) rhymes with «go»; a «sow» (a female pig) rhymes with «cow».

### In the corpora

- [And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.291/)
- [For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.938/)
- [Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1735/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sown» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sown/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.