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chestnut
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)
- A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
- A nut of this tree or shrub.
- (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree.
- A reddish-brown horse.
- (uncountable) The wood of a chestnut tree.
- 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").
- 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
- (Britain) The horse-chestnut.
Synonyms
- (tree): chestnut tree
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Gujarati: ??????? (ces?ana?)
Translations
Adjective
chestnut (not comparable)
- Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.
Translations
Related terms
- castanet
See also
- chestnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Chesnutt
chestnut From the web:
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elephant
English
Etymology
From Middle English elefant, elefaunt, from Old French elefant, elefan, olifant, re-latinized in Middle French as elephant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eléph?s) (gen. ????????? (eléphantos)). Believed to be derived from an Afroasiatic form such as Proto-Berber *e?u (“elephant”) (compare Tahaggart Tamahaq êlu, Tamasheq alu) or Egyptian ?bw (“elephant; ivory”). More at ivory. Replaced Middle English olifant (from the aforementioned Old French form, from Vulgar Latin *olifantus), which replaced Old English elpend (“elephant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l?f?nt/, /??l?f?nt/
Noun
elephant (countable and uncountable, plural elephants)
- A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
- (in particular) Any member of the family Elephantidae not also of the genus Mammuthus.
- (figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.
- (paper, printing) Synonym of elephant paper
- (Britain, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second
- Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant, two elephant, three elephant...
- (uncountable, obsolete) Ivory.
- He sent rich gifts of elephant and gold.
Synonyms
- (animal): Elephas maximus, Loxodonta africana
- (counting term): see Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds
Hyponyms
- (animal): African bush elephant, African forest elephant, Indian elephant, African elephant
Derived terms
Descendants
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- elephant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Elephant (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- heptenal
Middle French
Noun
elephant m (plural elephans)
- elephant (animal)
Descendants
- French: éléphant
- Haitian Creole: elefan
- ? Romanian: elefant
- ? Irish: eilifint
- ? Norman: êléphant, éléphant
elephant From the web:
- what elephants eat
- what elephant has the biggest ears
- what elephants have tusks
- what elephants learn act
- what elephants are endangered
- what elephants represent
- what elephant gift ideas
- what elephants are endangered
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