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- Dictionaryladen/ˈleɪdn/
adjective
- 1. heavily loaded or weighed down: "a tree laden with apples"
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carrying or holding a lot of something: a table laden with food. (Definition of laden from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) laden | Business English. adjective.
Something that is laden seems to be, or actually is, weighed down by the large amount of whatever it’s carrying: tree branches laden with fruit bend toward the ground; newspaper articles laden with technical jargon are hard to read; and sugar-laden cereal is very, very sweet.
Laden definition: burdened; loaded down.. See examples of LADEN used in a sentence.
Something that is laden is weighted down by something heavy, like an apple tree that's laden with fruit. Laden comes from the Old English word hladan, meaning "to load, heap." Think of the related word ladle, a big scoop you dip into something, such as soup or hot fudge.
1. adjective. If someone or something is laden with a lot of heavy things, they are holding or carrying them. [literary] I came home laden with cardboard boxes. [ + with] The following summer the peach tree was laden with fruit. ...heavily-laden mules. Synonyms: loaded, burdened, hampered, weighted More Synonyms of laden.
laden (with something) (literary) full of something, especially something unpleasant. His voice was soft, yet laden with threat. Try to avoid discussing emotionally laden subjects.
Define laden. laden synonyms, laden pronunciation, laden translation, English dictionary definition of laden. v. A past participle of lade. adj. 1. Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those thousands of miles of western sea" ....
