thorn
Meaning of thorn
noun
- A sharp protective spine of a plant.
- Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
the cockspur thorn
- That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
- A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
verb
To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn
Information about thorn
- The plural form of thorn is: thorns.
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Hyphenation of thorn
thorn
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- thorn is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
thorn synonyms
Meaning irritant:
Meaning spine:
spine, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet
Translation of thorn
Anagrams of thorn
Words that rhyme with thorn
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