thorn

Meaning of thorn

noun
  1. A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  2. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
    the cockspur thorn
  3. That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
  4. 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

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:

irritant

Meaning spine:

spine, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet

Translation of thorn

Anagrams of thorn

North, north

Words that rhyme with thorn

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