hershey
/ˈhɝʃi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.04 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
name
A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States, named for J. H. Hershey, a pioneer settler.
name
Any of the company towns named for and operated by the Hershey Company.
name
Any of the company towns named for and operated by the Hershey Company.
name
Any of the company towns named for and operated by the Hershey Company.
noun
A confection produced by The Hershey Company.
Example Sentences
- "But she knows her friends and if she likes you she will go for walks with you and even eat a Hershey in front of the drugstore if you buy her one."
- "Then I arranged all my own and my roommate’s pillows in a voluptuous pile, placed so that I could see whether a silent housemotherly foot stood outside the swaying monk’s-cloth curtain that served as a door (to cut down our libidinous chitchat, the school board believed), and I put my hoard of Hersheys discreetly under a fold of the bedspread."
- "Like a cash register, the word candy bar rang up a Hershey in my mind. […] I saw the Hershey scored in ten squares and imagined breaking one off, pushing it to the roof of my mouth to ooze down my throat. I had been five whole days without candy."
- "I remembered a Hershey in my shirt pocket. I broke off a piece and ate it."
Etymology
From Hercé in Normandy. The villages are named after The Hershey Company, which is named after its founder, Milton S. Hershey.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhɝʃi/