different between chestnut vs conkers

English

Etymology

Formerly chesten nut, from Middle English chesten, Middle English chesteyne, chasteine, from Old English ?isten and reinforced by Old French chastaigne, both from Latin cast?nea, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kastáneia).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t??s.n?t/, /?t??st.n?t/

Noun

chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural chestnuts)

1. A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
2. A nut of this tree or shrub.
3. (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree.

4. A reddish-brown horse.
5. (uncountable) The wood of a chestnut tree.
6. An old joke; a worn-out meme, phrase, ploy, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome or ineffective (often in the phrase "old chestnut").
7. A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human.

   Synonym: night eye

8. (Britain) The horse-chestnut.

Synonyms

• (tree): chestnut tree

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Gujarati: ??????? (ces?ana?)

Translations

Adjective

chestnut (not comparable)

1. Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.

Translations

Related terms

• castanet

See also

• chestnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Chesnutt

English

Noun

conkers

1. plural of conker
2. (Britain, uncountable) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string and take it in turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.

Anagrams

• reckons