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Woad meaning

  1. The plant Isatis tinctoria.
  2. The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.

Synonyms of Woad

dye dyestuff herb herbaceous plant

Related words

Other words often associated with Woad or its synonyms:

color colour seasoning discolor flavoring discolour flavouring

Using Woad

  • The main meaning on this page is: The plant Isatis tinctoria. | The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.
  • Useful related words include: dye, dyestuff, herb, herbaceous plant.
  • In the example corpus, woad often appears in combinations such as: with woad, lottie woad, of woad.

Context around Woad

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

lottie 2× europe 1× versus 1×

Often after:

plant 2× containing 1× johannes 1×

Sentence patterns with Woad

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

blue with woad or indigo 1× cultivation of woad made the 1× dyed with woad and madder 1× from the woad plant 1× ham and woad to england 1× in europe woad containing the 1× indigo versus woad johannes vermeer 1× made from woad in europe 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

agriculture industry and 1× blue dyes for 1× eva heller psychologie 1× hot on the 1× in europe woad 1× napoleon was forced 1×

Common sentence endings:

the woad plant 2× asia and africa 1× by synthetic dyes 1× for blue dying 1× important military base 1× in his paintings 1×

Words around Woad

Just before it in the word index:

woac 3 woa 3 wo 84 wnyw 3 wnyt 3 wnyc 23

Just after it in the word index:

woah 6 woai 3 woakes 85 woan 4 woba 3 wobbekind 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaon 20 abbv 20 abdalla 20 abdirahman 20 abdulmalik 20 abhimanyu 20

Corpus analysis for Woad

  • In this selection, "woad" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, lottie, europe, versus, plant, containing and johannes stand out and add context to how "woad" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include blue with woad or indigo and cultivation of woad made the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "woad" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with woad

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

In Europe woad containing the same dye was used for blue-dying. (12 words)

Napoleon was forced to dye uniforms with woad, which had an inferior blue colour. (14 words)

Since the start of the month, Lottie Woad has captured the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur - effets et symboliques (pg. 28) The efforts to block indigo were in vain; the quality of indigo blue was too high and the price too low for pastel made from woad to compete. (39 words)

Agriculture, industry and services Former factory building, now reused for services Anger 1, a big department store in centre Farming has a great tradition in Erfurt: the cultivation of woad made the city rich during the Middle Ages. (38 words)

Hot on the heels of Lottie Woad’s win in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, Chloe Tarbard landed another notable English success in the Scottish Girls’ Open at Powfoot. (30 words)

Example sentences (15)

Hot on the heels of Lottie Woad’s win in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, Chloe Tarbard landed another notable English success in the Scottish Girls’ Open at Powfoot.

Since the start of the month, Lottie Woad has captured the Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

Agriculture, industry and services Former factory building, now reused for services Anger 1, a big department store in centre Farming has a great tradition in Erfurt: the cultivation of woad made the city rich during the Middle Ages.

Blue dyes for clothing were made from woad in Europe and indigo in Asia and Africa.

Eva Heller, Psychologie de la couleur - effets et symboliques (pg. 28) The efforts to block indigo were in vain; the quality of indigo blue was too high and the price too low for pastel made from woad to compete.

In Europe woad containing the same dye was used for blue-dying.

Napoleon was forced to dye uniforms with woad, which had an inferior blue colour.

Russet was a coarse homespun cloth made of wool and dyed with woad and madder to give it a subdued grey or brown shade.

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The Bayonnaises became carriers of Bordeaux wines and other south-western products like resin, ham, and woad to England. p. 171. Bayonne was then an important military base.

The chemical composition of indigo dye is the same as that of woad, but the colour is more intense.

The nobility wore red or purple, while only the poor wore blue clothing, coloured with poor-quality dyes made from the woad plant.

The war of the blues – indigo versus woad Johannes Vermeer used natural ultramarine in his paintings.

This derives from the ancient use of urine, particularly the urine of men who had been drinking alcohol in dyeing cloth blue with woad or indigo.

To dye fabrics green, they first colored them yellow with dye made from saffron and then soaked them in blue dye from the roots of the woad plant.

Woad was replaced by true indigo as trade routes opened up, and both are now largely replaced by synthetic dyes.

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Common combinations with woad

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "woad" in a sentence?
An example: "Hot on the heels of Lottie Woad’s win in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, Chloe Tarbard landed another notable English success in the Scottish Girls’ Open at Powfoot." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "woad" from authentic English texts.
What does "woad" mean?
Woad means: The plant Isatis tinctoria.
What are synonyms of "woad"?
Common synonyms of "woad" include: dye, dyestuff, herb, herbaceous plant.
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