Definitions for hornet

hornet hor·net

Spelling: [hawr-nit]
IPA: /ˈhɔr nɪt/

Hornet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in hornet (ehnort).

Definitions for hornet

noun

  1. any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.

Origin of hornet

before 900; Middle English harnete, Old English hyrnet(u); cognate with Old High German hornaz (> German Horniss); akin to horn

Examples for hornet

As any journalist who has poked at this hornet's nest can tell you, myself included, the wrath of the 4chan hive is no picnic.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps also use the supersonic F/A-18 hornet strike fighter to guide other jets to their targets.

"And get something for these hornet stings," added Tad Sobber.

Our peaceful convent was from thenceforth like a bee-hive into which a hornet had entered.

"As mad as a hornet," and there was a chuckle in Sam's tone.

The hornet was too small to be struck by the arrows of the lightning.

So the hornet is now an oriole, a bird that is loved by every one.

But that's abstract enough to allow people to read into it what they will and avoid the hornet's nest of contemporary politics.

He recognized the nest as that of a variety of hornet which is large and valiant.

He went a-peekin' an' a-pryin' round my ears, as if he'd found a hornet's nest.

Word Value for hornet
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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