Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

horst

/hɔːst/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.85 in modern English

Syllables: horst
IPA: /hɔːst/

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.

name

Example Sentences

"The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts."
"1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19, Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts."
"Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben."
"Horsts and grabens are rock structural features that are identified by the nature of the offset of rock units along normal faults; topographically, horsts form mountain ranges and grabens form basins."

Etymology

From German Horst (“heap”). Doublet of hurst.

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Horst, -

Inflected Forms

horsts (plural)

Phrases

horst and graben

Homonyms

horsed

Antonyms

graben

Rhymes With

forced divorced endorsed reinforced enforced outsourced forst borst unenforced horsed dorst unhorsed

Questions

How do you pronounce horst?: The recorded pronunciation is /hɔːst/.
What does horst mean?: A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
Where does horst come from?: It is traced to German.

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