"freighted with meaning"

Posted by R. Berg November 23, 2001In reply to "Freighted with meaning" posted by ESC on November 22, 2001

In the local newpaper on Thanksgiving Day, it says the holiday is "freighted with meaning" because of Sept. 11. I have only seen "fraught with meaning." (World Book Dictionary -- adjective, of a vessel laden; noun, Scottish, burden, load).

Anyway. We are having a Happy (Vegetarian) Thanksgiving. Ditto what Bruce said. Hope your holiday is happy too. Even if you do eat turkey.

The Oxford English Dictionary has a definition for "freighted" as a participle and a participial adjective: "Laden with cargo." Some examples:
Literal: "Shyppes frayghted wyth gossampine cotton and silke clothes" .
Figurative: "Epistles which . . . were freighted with the doom and destiny of countless millions" .