Definitions for chestnut

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chestnut chest·nut

Spelling: [ches-nuht, -nuh t]

IPA: /ˈtʃɛsˌnʌt, -nət/

Chestnut is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in chestnut (cehnsttu).

Definitions for chestnut

noun

1. any of the several deciduous trees constituting the genus Castanea, of the beech family, having toothed, oblong leaves and bearing edible nuts enclosed in a prickly bur, and including C. dentata (American chestnut) which has been virtually destroyed by the chestnut blight, C. sativa (European chestnut) C. mollissima (Chinese chestnut) and C. crenata (Japanese chestnut)
2. the edible nut of such a tree.
3. the wood of any of these trees.
4. any fruit or tree resembling the chestnut, as the horse chestnut.
5. reddish brown.
6. an old or stale joke, anecdote, etc.
7. the callosity on the inner side of the leg of a horse.
8. a reddish-brown horse having the mane and tail of the same color. Compare bay5 (def 2).
9. Also called liver chestnut. a horse of a solid, dark-brown color.

Idioms

1. pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire, to rescue someone from a difficulty.

adjective

1. being reddish-brown in color.
2. (of food) containing or made with chestnuts:

Origin of chestnut

1350-1400; 1880-85 for def 6; earlier chesten nut, Middle English chesten, Old English cysten chestnut tree (Latin castanea Greek kastanéa) + nut

Examples for chestnut

But Andrew, with the chestnut running like a red flash beneath him, had vanished.

He heard the hum and clang of an electric car off through a chestnut grove.

With my tomahawk I cut a mark in that chestnut yonder and buried my weapon at the foot of it.

chestnut downed 62 to prove he was hungrier for the win than the rest of the pack on July 4th.

Reginald, having finished his chestnut, squeaked for another.

Tinsel, garland, and chestnut shells are the only combustibles on offer.

Even the way he sets up that chestnut, he makes the joke a part of his own history.

chestnut was last, carried on a yellow chariot through a sea of adoring fans.

I'll trade this chestnut—and he's a fine traveler—with a good price to boot.

Then I saw him again coming down one of the chestnut alleys of the Cours la Reine.