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horst

/hɔːst/

horst noun: a block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.

horst: a block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding...
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Noun

horst (plural horsts)

  1. A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
    • The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.1927, George Rogers Mansfield, Geography, Geology, and Mineral Resources of Part of Southeastern Idaho, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 152, page 390
    • Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19

Proper noun capitalized: Horst

Horst (plural Horsts)

  1. A surname.

horst meaning in Tamil

horst in Tamil

நிலப்பிளவிடைமேடு, பாறைப்பிதிர்வு, பிளவிடைத்திட்டு

Examples of horst in a sentence

  • Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside, page 83:
  • Horsts and grabens are rock structural features that are identified by the nature of the offset of rock units along normal faults; topographically, horsts form mountain ranges and grabens form basins.2011, James Petersen, Dorothy Sack, Robert Gabler, Physical Geography, 10th edition, page 393:

Antonyms of horst

Forms of horst

Noun
pluralhorsts
Proper noun
pluralHorsts

Origin of horst

From German Horst (“heap”). Doublet of hurst.

Borrowed from German and Dutch Horst.

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Questions about horst

What does horst mean?
Horst means a block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
What is horst in Tamil?
Horst in Tamil is நிலப்பிளவிடைமேடு, பாறைப்பிதிர்வு, பிளவிடைத்திட்டு. See Horst meaning in Tamil.
How do you use horst in a sentence?
Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.
What part of speech is horst?
Horst can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce horst?
Horst is pronounced /hɔːst/.
What is the plural of horst?
The plural of horst is horsts.

Words near horst in the dictionary

  1. horsons
  2. Horspath
  3. Horspool
  4. Horspool's algorithm
  5. Horspools
  6. horst
  7. Horst aan de Maas
  8. horst and graben
  9. Horstead
  10. Horstead with Stanninghall
  11. Horsted Keynes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horst (page history and authors); Horst (page history and authors); horst (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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