haystack.
A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
Meaning & usage
A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
A standing wave in a rapid.
The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)
Any place or collection of items through which one searches for something that is rare and hard to find.
A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English haystak, haystake, hey stak, equivalent to hay + stack.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.