thorn — meaning in English
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English meaning
- thorn noun A sharp, hard, pointed growth on a plant stem or branch.
Senses
thorn is used for these senses in English:
- thorn A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
thorn — full definition
- noun A sharp, hard, pointed growth on a plant stem or branch.
- noun A shrub or small tree known for bearing thorns, especially the hawthorn.
- noun Something or someone that repeatedly causes irritation or trouble.
- noun An old English letter (Þ, þ) once used to represent the "th" sound, still used in Icelandic today.
- verb To pierce or prick with something sharp, as if with a thorn.