SOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sown mean? 

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

1. sprinkled with seed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sprinkled with seed

Synonyms:

seeded; sown

Context example:

a seeded lawn

Similar:

planted (set in the soil for growth)

 Context examples 

I have sown my corn, and Nature has her work to do in making it sprout; if he sprout at all, there's some promise; and I wait till the ear begins to swell.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

India, a predominantly agricultural country, has some 60 per cent of its total sown area under rainfed farming, making scientific forecasts of rainfall patterns vital to the country’s economy.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

There were the broad outer and inner bailies, not paved, but sown with grass to nourish the sheep and cattle which might be driven in on sign of danger.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What I reaped, I had sown.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In Sierra Nevada, water is sown and harvested by means of the so-called acequias (irrigation channels) de careo.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)

Fancy me yielding and melting, as I am doing: human love rising like a freshly opened fountain in my mind and overflowing with sweet inundation all the field I have so carefully and with such labour prepared—so assiduously sown with the seeds of good intentions, of self-denying plans.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They availed themselves of the rare privilege to the fullest extent, for some tried the pleasing experiment of drinking milk while standing on their heads, others lent a charm to leapfrog by eating pie in the pauses of the game, cookies were sown broadcast over the field, and apple turnovers roosted in the trees like a new style of bird.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“She has sown this. Let her moan for the harvest that she reaps today!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For myself, I could no more run than if I had been sown in a sack; so here I sit, and here I am like to sit, before I set eyes upon my clothes again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)