acorn

acorn meaning in Hindi, Tagalog, Arabic and Persian

Examples of acorn in a sentence

• Don't give up on the project - mighty oaks from little acorns grow!
• Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
• Acorns come in spherical and fusiform varieties.

All 30 example sentences with acorn

Forms of acorn

Plural of acorn: acorns

Origin of acorn

Inherited from Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną (“fruit; acorn, nut”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”). Cognates Cognate with Scots aicorn (“acorn”), Dutch aker (“acorn”), German Ecker (“acorn”), Danish agern (“acorn”), Faroese and Icelandic akarn (“acorn”), Norwegian Nynorsk åkorn (“acorn”), Gothic 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽 (akran, “fruit”); Irish airne (“sloe”), Welsh aeron (“berries; small fruits”), eirin (“plums”), Latgalian ūga (“berry”), Latvian oga (“berry”), Lithuanian uoga (“berry”), Belarusian я́гада (jáhada, “berry”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian я́года (jáhoda, “berry”), Czech and Slovak jahoda (“strawberry”), Macedonian ја́года (jágoda, “strawberry”), Polish and Slovene jagoda (“berry”), Serbo-Croatian ја̏года, jȁgoda (“strawberry”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B oko (“fruit”). Not related to Old English āc (“oak”), corn (“corn, seed”) or Middle English acquerne.

Words formed from acorn

• acorn barnacle
• acorn cup
• acorn disease
• acorn duck
• acorned
• acornlike
• acorn moth
• acorn nut
• acorn squash
• acorn sugar
• acorn tube
• acorn valve
• acorn weevil
• acorn woodpecker
• acorn worm
• acorny
• eggcorn
• even a blind pig can find an acorn
• even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
• even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then
• even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while
• mount a horse foaled by an acorn
• ride a horse foaled by an acorn
• ride a horse foaled of an acorn
• sea acorn

Phrases with acorn

• acorn cups
• acorn nuts
• acorn ducks
• acorn moths
• acorn tubes
• acorn worms
• acorn valves
• acorn weevils
• acorn squashes
• acorn barnacles
• acorn woodpeckers
• rid a horse foaled by an acorn

Questions about acorn

What does acorn mean?

Acorn means the fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

What is acorn in Hindi?

Acorn in Hindi is बाँजफल (bāñjphal). See Acorn meaning in Hindi.

What part of speech is acorn?

Acorn can be a noun or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce acorn?

Acorn is pronounced /ˈeɪ.kɔɹn/ (US).

What is the plural of acorn?

The plural of acorn is acorns.