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say it: FROH-zuhn
frozen is an adjective meaning "turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold". It is pronounced /ˈfɹoʊzən/ — FROH-zuhn. It carries 7 recorded senses.
turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold
“the frozen North”
“frozen pipes”
“children skating on a frozen brook”
absolutely still
“frozen with horror”
“they stood rooted in astonishment”
not thawed
(used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value
“frozen foods”
incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"
“living on fixed incomes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for frozen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.