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hurst.

A wood or grove.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/hɝst/General-American/hɜːst/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A wood or grove.

Where this word comes from

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.

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