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hurst

/hɜːst/US/hɝst/

hurst noun: a wood or grove.

Noun

hurst (plural hursts)

  1. (rare outside place names) A wood or grove.
    • Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d
      So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst,
      Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 2 p. 27
    • ‘How you grandiloquise. A forest of uncertainty. But there – I slow down, as you say. I hesitate. I wonder if – no , let’s try further down. I cannot see the hurst for the elms.’1963, P[hilip] M[aitland] Hubbard, Flush as May, New York, N.Y.: London House & Maxwell, →LCCN, page 158

Proper noun capitalized: Hurst

Hurst

  1. A village in St Nicholas Hurst parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7973).
  2. A hamlet in Skelton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4141).
  3. A hamlet in Moreton parish, Dorset, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY7990).
  4. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9400).
  5. A hamlet in Marrick parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ0402).
  6. A hamlet in Clun parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO3180).
  7. A suburb of Martock, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4518).
  8. A minor city in Williamson County, Illinois.
  9. A ghost town in Texas County, Missouri.
  10. A city in Tarrant County, Texas.
  11. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
  12. A surname.

hurst meaning in Tamil and Assamese

hurst in Tamil

குன்றுமேடு

hurst in Assamese

hurst
বন bon

Examples of hurst in a sentence

  • A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]2000, Grazing Ecology and Forest History, →ISBN, page 150:
  • Lovehurst down in the clay lands towards Staplehurst means "the hurst that was left to someone in a will": Legacy Wood.2010, Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History, page 124:

Forms of hurst

pluralhursts

Origin of hurst

From Middle English hirste (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”). Doublet of horst.

Words formed from hurst

Words that rhyme with hurst

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Questions about hurst

What does hurst mean?
Hurst means a wood or grove.
What is hurst in Tamil?
Hurst in Tamil is குன்றுமேடு. See Hurst meaning in Tamil.
How do you use hurst in a sentence?
A blackthorn seedling can in this way expand into a hurst of 0,1-0, 5 ha in the space of 10 years, […]
What part of speech is hurst?
Hurst can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hurst?
Hurst is pronounced /hɝst/ (US).
What is the plural of hurst?
The plural of hurst is hursts.

Words near hurst in the dictionary

  1. Hurseys
  2. Hursh
  3. Hurshes
  4. hursinghar
  5. Hursley
  6. hurst
  7. Hurst Green
  8. Hurst tool
  9. Hurstbourne Priors
  10. Hurstbourne Tarrant
  11. Hurstbridge

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hurst (page history and authors); Hurst (page history and authors); hurst (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); বন (Assamese) (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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