nash
/næʃ/
nash is the alternative spelling of nesh.
Meaning of nesh
Adjective
nesh (comparative nesher, superlative neshest)
- Soft; tender; sensitive; yielding.
- haue ye no merueylle sayd the good man therof / for hit semeth wel god loueth yow / for men maye vnderstande a stone is hard of kynde /[…]/ for thou wylt not leue thy synne for no goodnes that god hath sente the / therfor thou arte more than ony stone / and neuer woldest thow be maade neysshe nor...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII
- Delicate; weak; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
- And if he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as nesh as her mother was.1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “Chapter 4”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
- Soft; friable; crumbly.
Proper noun capitalized: Nash
Nash (countable and uncountable, plural Nashes)
- A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7834).
- A hamlet near Keston, borough of Bromley, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4063).
- A hamlet in Rodd, Nash and Little Brampton parish, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3062).
- A hamlet in Ash parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2659).
- A village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6071).
- A hamlet in East Coker parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5313).
- A village and community in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3483).
- A census-designated place in Walsh County, North Dakota; named for the Nash brothers, early settlers.
- A town in Grant County, Oklahoma.
- A city in Bowie County, Texas; named for railroad executive Martin Manny Nash.
- A village in Gilan Province, Iran.
- An English habitational surname from Middle English from the places in England.
- A habitational surname from Irish of Anglo-Norman origin, an anglicization of Irish de Nais or de Nás, both from the English surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern America usage.
Noun (1) capitalized: Nash
Nash (plural Nashes)
- A former make of American automobile manufactured by Nash Motors, and later American Motors Corporation.
Noun (2) capitalized: NASH
NASH (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
Forms of nash
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more nash |
| superlative | most nash |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Nashes |
| alternative form | Naish |
| Noun | |
| plural | Nashes |
Origin of nash
Dialectal variant of gnash.
Words formed from nash
Phrases with nash
Words that rhyme with nash
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mash
- rash
- plash
- thrash
- cache
- gash
- gnash
- goulash
- pash
- rehash
- sash
- stash
- bash
- bedash
- brash
- fash
- ganache
- overlash
- potash
- slapdash
- abash
- backslash
- backsplash
- calash
- gatecrash
- Kash
- midrash
- mishmash
- panache
- shamash
- shash
- stramash
- taplash
- apache
- bardash
- berdache
- Chumash
- encash
- haberdash
- heat rash
- keysmash
- Lagash
- Malagash
- Miminegash
- newsflash
- outflash
- overrash
- pearlash
Questions about nash
- What does nash mean?
- Nash means a village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7834).
- What is nash the alternative spelling of?
- Nash is the alternative spelling of nesh.
- What part of speech is nash?
- Nash can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce nash?
- Nash is pronounced /næʃ/.
Words near nash in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nash (page history and authors); Nash (page history and authors); NASH (page history and authors); nesh (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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