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hazel

/ˈheɪzəl/

hazel noun: a tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

Noun

hazel (usually uncountable, plural hazels)

  1. (countable, usually) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
    • The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
    • Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273
  2. (countable, usually) The nut of the hazel tree.
    Synonyms:
    filbert, hazelnut
  3. (usually) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
  4. (countable, uncountable, usually) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
  5. (countable, usually) Freestone.

Adjective

hazel (comparative more hazel or (rare) hazeler, superlative most hazel or (rare) hazelest)

  1. Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
    • As she grew up and her hazel eyes became hazeler and her dark hair darker and her white skin whiter, and her form a sigh on every boy’s lips, she concentrated on one dream.1956 January 7, James L. Collings, “Syndicates: Oh Marie! Whatta Gal and Whatta Reporter”, in Robert U[tting] Brown, editor, Editor & Publisher, volume 89, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Editor &...
    • The shrewd eyes, more hazel than her son’s but with the same straight brows, were fixed on Clary’s face.1986, Robyn Donald, chapter 4, in A Willing Surrender, London: Mills & Boon Limited, →ISBN, page 81

Proper noun capitalized: Hazel

Hazel (countable and uncountable, plural Hazels)

  1. A female given name from English from the plant or colour hazel. Popular in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.
    • GREEN. - - Squire Rodney has been looking into your affairs, and, by Jove! he swears you've deceived Hazel Kirke!
      ARTHUR. Deceived her? How?
      GREEN. He says that your marriage to her was a pretence, a farce, a lie.1880, Steele MacKaye, Hazel Kirke ( An Iron Will)
    • In the month of May,
      When all nature seems in touch with hidden jewels,
      We called her Hazel,
      Hazel May.1908, S. Florence Ray, Fallen Petals, page 17
  2. A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a hazel tree.
  3. A minor city in Calloway County, Kentucky.
  4. A town in Hamlin County, South Dakota.
  5. An unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington.
  6. An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.

hazel meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

hazel in Hindi

हेज़ल, हेज़ेल, हेजल

hazel in Tamil

ஹசெல்

hazel in Marathi

हेझेल, हेझल, हझेल

hazel in Urdu

فندق
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hazel in Bengali
হ্যাজেল, হেজেল
hazel in Telugu
హజెల్, హాజెల్
hazel in Malayalam
ഹാസെൽ, ഹാസൽ
hazel in Kannada
ನಸು ಕಂದು
hazel in Punjabi
ਬਿੱਲੀ billī
hazel in Gujarati
હેઝલ, હેઝેલ, હઝેલ
hazel in Odia
ହେଜେଲ, ହାଜେଲ୍, ହେଜେଲ୍
hazel in Nepali
हेजल, हेजेल, हाजेल
hazel in Tagalog
puno ng abelyana, abelyano
hazel in Arabic
بُنْدُقْ bunduq, عَسَلِيّ ʕasaliyy
hazel in Persian
عسلى 'asali

Examples of hazel in a sentence

  • SAGE: Don’t my eyes look hazeler? (or: periwinkler) / CHLO: (as GARTH) Yes. / SAGE: You said you loved my hazel eyes. (or: periwinkle) Don’t you love them more hazely? (or: periwinkly)1996, Adryan Russ, Doug Haverty, “Act Two”, in Inside Out, New York, N.Y.: Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:
  • The drummer’s eyes took the small woman in slowly, starting with her face, down to her feet and then back up into the hazelest eyes she’d ever seen.2005, Sharon Smith, chapter 2, in Into the Dark, Nederland, Tex.: Yellow Rose Books, →ISBN, page 12:
  • What’s that line on “Hazel Eyes”: “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazeler”? [Justin Hawkins:] “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazelerer.”2005 December, Doug Brod, “Burning Sensation”, in Sia Michel, editor, Spin, volume 21, number 12, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, page 73, column 2:
  • Doolittle had the hazelest eyeballs, the winsomest spinal pelt.2011, Margaret Fiske, “Sense & Circuitry: Cyberth 1813”, in Peter Archer, Jennifer Lawler, editors, Bad Austen: The Worst Stories Jane...

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Synonyms of hazel

Forms of hazel

Noun
pluralhazels
alternative form (archaic)hazle
Adjective
comparativemore hazel
superlativemost hazel
comparative (rare)hazeler
superlative (rare)hazelest
Proper noun
pluralHazels
alternative formHasell
alternative formHazell

Plural of hazel: hazels

Origin of hazel

From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognates Cognate with Yola hawlse (“hazel”), Dutch hazel, hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Vilamovian hozuł (“hazel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Icelandic hesli (“hazel”), Norwegian Nynorsk hasl, hassel (“hazel”); also Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel”), Irish call, coll (“hazel”), Manx coull (“hazel”), Scottish Gaelic coll (“hazel”), Welsh cyll (“hazel trees”).

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Questions about hazel

What does hazel mean?
Hazel means a tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
What is hazel in Hindi?
Hazel in Hindi is हेज़ल, हेज़ेल, हेजल. See Hazel meaning in Hindi.
How do you use hazel in a sentence?
SAGE: Don’t my eyes look hazeler? (or: periwinkler) / CHLO: (as GARTH) Yes. / SAGE: You said you loved my hazel eyes. (or: periwinkle) Don’t you love them more hazely? (or: periwinkly)
What part of speech is hazel?
Hazel can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hazel?
Hazel is pronounced /ˈheɪzəl/.
What is the plural of hazel?
The plural of hazel is hazels.

Words near hazel in the dictionary

  1. Hazebrouck
  2. hazed
  3. hazed over
  4. hazee
  5. hazees
  6. hazel
  7. hazel alder
  8. hazel alders
  9. Hazel Dell
  10. hazel dormice
  11. hazel dormouse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hazel (page history and authors); Hazel (page history and authors); hazel (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hazel (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hazel (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hazel (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hazel (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hazel (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hazel (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hazel (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਬਿੱਲੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); hazel (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hazel (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hazel (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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