Word.ws English Dictionary

hex signs

hex signs is the plural of hex sign.

Meaning of hex sign

Noun

hex sign (plural hex signs)

  1. (Pennsylvania, US) A geometric design usually consisting of a star or flower placed in a circular field, used by the Fancy Dutch on buildings such as barns, often said to be intended as a ward against evil in former times.
    • This association will partially pay for the repainting of hex signs in the tourist areas.1984, Thomas Edmund Graves, The Pennsylvania German Hex Sign: A Study in Folk Process, page 256
  2. (Germanic) A protective symbol used in Heathenry comprising a six-petaled flower or star set within a circle, as a New Age adaptation of the above.

Questions about hex signs

What is hex signs the plural of?
Hex signs is the plural of hex sign.

Words near hex signs in the dictionary

  1. hex head wrench
  2. hex head wrenches
  3. hex key
  4. hex keys
  5. hex sign
  6. hex signs
  7. hex-
  8. hex-edit
  9. hex-edited
  10. hex-editing
  11. hex-editor

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hex signs (page history and authors); hex sign (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hex signs.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hex_signs. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.