hurst
/hɝst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A number of places in England:
name
A number of places in England:
name
A number of places in England:
name
A number of places in England:
name
A number of places in England:
name
A number of places in England:
name
A number of places in England:
Example Sentences
- "Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst, Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,"
- "‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’"
- "A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]"
- "A recognizable world seems to balloon up out of the names […]. Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means "the hurst that was left to someone in a will": Legacy Wood. Its near neighbor, Tolehurst, originally called Tunlafahirst, means something like Heir's Farm Wood."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɝst/
- British English: /hɜːst/