Chestnut

Quick meaning: Chestnut is a noun meaning (by extension) Things resembling a chestnut fruit in appearance or colour.

Meaning

(by extension) Things resembling a chestnut fruit in appearance or colour.

More Meanings

1. Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut fruit (noun sense 1).
2. (countable) In full chestnut tree: the shrub or tree that bears this nut, the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a shrub or tree of the genus Castanea.
3. (countable, figurative) Chiefly in old chestnut: a joke, meme, phrase, ploy, etc. which has been repeated so often as to have grown ineffective or tiresome; a cliché.
4. (countable) An edible nut (technically a fruit) of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a nut from a related shrub or tree; or a similar nut from an unrelated plant.

Example Sentences

Cheſnuts are good in Female VVeakneſſes, and afford a very good Nouriſhment.

The Cheſnut delighteth in ſhadowie places and mountaynes whoſe ſituation is towardes the North.

Of trouth the cheſtain trees brynge forth the ſoft ſwete cheſtnutte out of the ſharpe pricking ⁊ hard huſke.

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Word Forms

• chestnuts
• chesnut

Synonyms for chestnut

Depending on context, synonyms include platitude, castaneous, chromatic, colored.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include colored, chromatic, hazel, hazelnut, nut, brown.

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