OATEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oaten mean? 

• OATEN (adjective)
  The adjective OATEN has 1 sense:

1. of or related to or derived from oats

  Familiarity information: OATEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OATEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or related to or derived from oats

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

oaten bread

Pertainym:

oat (seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as 'oats'))

 Context examples 

The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval entreating me to join him.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

When it came to my turn, I drank, for I was thirsty, but did not touch the food, excitement and fatigue rendering me incapable of eating: I now saw, however, that it was a thin oaten cake shared into fragments.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)