hart
/hɑɹt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.04 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread.
name
An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname from Middle English hert (“stag, hart”).
name
A surname from Irish anglicised from the Irish Ó hAirt (“descendant of a person named Bear or Champion”) (see Old Irish art (“bear”))
name
A village and civil parish in Hartlepool borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4735).
Example Sentences
- "With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d."
- "Then, finding Herds of luſtie Deare, / She Huntreſſe-like the Hart purſues; […]"
- "We are to have hart for dinner on Jack’s birthday; you call it deer in Grenada."
- "The people of Israel knew something of hunting, as in the stories of eating hart and roebuck, and venison."
- "Still, the people of Israel certainly knew about hunting, because they ate hart (red deer) and roe deer."
- "For this reliefe much thanks, tis bitter cold, / And I am ſick at hart."
Etymology
From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot. Cognates Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɑɹt/
- British English: /hɑːt/