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flown

verbadjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfləʊn//
  • United States//ˈfloʊn//

Suspended in the flies.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of flypast participle of fly

Etymology

From Middle English flowen, floȝen, from Old English flogen, ġeflogen, past participle of Old English flēogan (“to fly”).

adjective

  1. 1

    Suspended in the flies.

    flown scenery

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of flowpast participle of flow

Etymology

From Middle English flowen (attested in derived verbs such as overflowen), from Old English flōwen, ġeflowen, past participle of Old English flōwan (“to flow”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).