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hart

/hɑːt//hɑɹt/

hart noun: a male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year. Also the obsolete spelling of heart.

hart: a male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year
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Noun (1)

hart (countable and uncountable, plural hart or harts)

  1. (countable) A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
    • With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled,
      Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles,
      And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops:
      Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • Then, finding Herds of luſtie Deare, / She Huntreſſe-like the Hart purſues; […]1612, Michael Drayton, “The thirteenth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of...
    Synonyms:
    buck, stag
  2. (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
    • We are to have hart for dinner on Jack’s birthday; you call it deer in Grenada.1891 July 8, L. S., “Twenty Hidden Towns in One State”, in Good Housekeeping […], volume XIII, number 2 (154 overall), Springfield, Mass., published August 1891, →OCLC, page 95, column 1
    • The people of Israel knew something of hunting, as in the stories of eating hart and roebuck, and venison.1999, James B[iser] Whisker, “Hunting in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition”, in The Right to Hunt, revised edition, Bellevue, Wash.: Merril Press, →ISBN, page 38
  3. (archaic) The stag of any deer species.

Noun (2)

hart (plural harts)

  1. In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread.
    • It is required by the RISC-V specification that at least one hart be assigned an ID of 0.

Proper noun capitalized: Hart

Hart

  1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname from Middle English hert (“stag, hart”).
  2. A surname from Irish anglicised from the Irish Ó hAirt (“descendant of a person named Bear or Champion”) (see Old Irish art (“bear”))
  3. A village and civil parish in Hartlepool borough, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4735).
  4. A local government district in northeastern Hampshire, England.
  5. A tributary of the River Whitewater in Hampshire and ultimately of the Thames; in full, the River Hart.
  6. A ghost town in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California.
  7. A city, the county seat of Oceana County, Michigan.
  8. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Winona County, Minnesota.
  9. An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
  10. A ghost town in Macon County, Missouri.
  11. A minor city in Castro County, Texas.
  12. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Hart Township.
  13. A locality in the Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia.
  14. A locality in Wakefield Regional council area, Mid North region, South Australia.

Noun (3) capitalized: HART

HART (plural HARTs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of hazardous area response team.

Also used as

hart is also the obsolete spelling of heart.

hart meaning in Arabic

hart in Arabic

male deer
أَيَّل ʔayyal

Synonyms of hart

Forms of hart

pluralhart
pluralharts
pluralHARTs

Plural of hart: hart or harts

Origin of hart

From Middle English hert, from Old English heorot (“stag”), from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz (compare Dutch hert, German Hirsch, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish hjort), from Pre-Germanic *kerudos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Doublet of Heorot. Cognates Compare Welsh carw (“deer”), Latin cervus (“deer”), cervīx (“nape of the neck”), Lithuanian kárvė (“cow”), Russian коро́ва (koróva, “cow”), Ancient Greek κόρυδος (kórudos, “crested lark”), κορυφή (koruphḗ, “summit, crown of the head”), κορύπτω (korúptō, “to butt with horns”), Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn; claw, talon”), Sanskrit शरभ (śarabhá, “mythical antelope”). More at horn.

See heart.

Abbreviation of hardware thread. As stated in The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I: The term hart was introduced in the work on Lithe (Pan et al., 2009) and (Pan et al., 2010) to provide a term to represent an abstract execution resource as opposed to a software thread programming abstraction. RISC-V Foundation The corresponding source reads: Our proposal has two main components. First, we export a new low-level unvirtualized hardware thread abstraction, or hart, from the operating system to applications. […] Heidi Pan, Benjamin Hindman, Krste Asanović

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Questions about hart

What does hart mean?
Hart means a male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.
What is hart in Arabic?
Hart in Arabic is أَيَّل (ʔayyal). See Hart meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is hart?
Hart can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hart?
Hart is pronounced /hɑːt/ (UK).
What is the plural of hart?
The plural of hart is hart.

Words near hart in the dictionary

  1. Harsley
  2. harstigite
  3. Harston
  4. Harstons
  5. Harsusi
  6. hart
  7. Hart Butte
  8. Hart County
  9. Hart Hall
  10. hart of grease
  11. Hart Station

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hart (page history and authors); Hart (page history and authors); HART (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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