chestnut
see also: Chestnut
Etymology

Formerly chesten [[nut]], from Middle English chesten, Middle English chesteyne, chasteine, from Old English ċisten and reinforced by Old French chastaigne, both from Latin castānea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια.

Pronunciation
  • (British, America) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛs.nʌt/, /ˈt͡ʃɛst.nʌt/
Noun

chestnut

  1. A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
    Synonyms: chestnut tree
  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.
    • 1871, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 20, page 308:
      Lord Carington […] led the way with his chestnuts […]
  5. (uncountable) Wood of a chestnut tree.
  6. (figurative) 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").
    Synonyms: cliché, platitude
  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.
    Synonyms: night eye
  8. (UK) The horse-chestnut.
Translations Translations Translations Translations Adjective

chestnut (not comparable)

  1. Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.
    chestnut hair
Translations Related terms
Chestnut
Proper noun
  1. Surname.



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