noun
Nash
nash
noun
1
A now-discontinued American car brand that later merged into American Motors Corporation.
"His grandfather still kept an old Nash parked in the barn."
name
1
A surname, and a place name found in several English villages, originally meaning someone or something located "at the ash tree."
"The Nash family had farmed that stretch of Herefordshire for generations."
How to Use Nash
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA surname and old car brand, originally meaning someone who lived by an ash tree.
Word Forms
Nashes plural, Nashes plural
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Etymology
From Middle English "atten ash," meaning "at the ash tree" — the "n" shifted from the article onto the noun over time, the same way "an apron" once was "a napron."