hurst

CEFRC2

/hɝst/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A wooded hill or small group of trees.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A number of places in England:, A village in St Nicholas Hurst parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7973).

Examples

  • Mr. Hurst looked at her with astonishment.

  • ‘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.’

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A wood or grove.

More examples

In context

  • 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,

  • A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]

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Origin

noun

From Middle English hirste (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”). Doublet of horst.