Definitions for Thorn

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Thorn thorn

Spelling: [thawrn]

IPA: /θɔrn/

Thorn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Thorn (hnort).

Definitions for Thorn

noun

1. a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.
2. any of various thorny shrubs or trees, especially the hawthorns belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family.
3. the wood of any of these trees.
4. a runic character (þ), borrowed into the Latin alphabet and representing the initial th sounds in thin and they in Old English, or thin in modern Icelandic.
5. something that wounds, annoys, or causes discomfort.
6. German name of Toruń.

Idioms

1. thorn in one's side / flesh, a source of continual irritation or suffering:

verb (used with object)

1. to prick with a thorn; vex.

Origin of Thorn

before 900; Middle English (noun), Old English; cognate with Dutch doorn, German Dorn, Old Norse thorn, Gothic thaurnus

Examples for Thorn

There was something, too, about Paul's thorn in the flesh, but I forget that bit.

You, who have been hitherto the thorn in my path, the cloud in my fate!

For their covering a mantle is what they all wear, fastened with a clasp or, for want of it, with a thorn.

Senator Blanche Lincoln was a thorn in the Democrats' side during the health-care debate.

The thorn of Anna's inefficiency had always rankled in her flesh.

For more than 40 years now, Norwegian director Vibeke Løkkeberg has relished being a thorn in the side of authorities.

thorn also posted a video on his personal YouTube page wherein he desk-dances to Taylor Swift.

A tabletop bronze of a boy pulling a thorn from his foot, made around 1500 by the Renaissance sculptor known as Antico.

This unlucky newspaper was a thorn in the side of every patriot of Carlow County.

That freedom has been a thorn in the side of many cardinals who feel the sisters should be more conservative.