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Hawthorn

//ˈhɔ.θɔɹn// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A borough in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    An inner suburb of Melbourne in the City of Boroondara, Victoria, Australia. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Mitcham, South Australia. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4145). countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A hamlet in Four Marks parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6733). countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A suburban area in Pontypridd community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0987). countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches countable, uncountable

    "Proust, an author to whom Humboldt had introduced me and in whose work he gave me heavy instruction, said he was often attracted to people whose faces had something in them of a hawthorn hedge in bloom."

  2. 2
    a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hawthorn, from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to haw (“hedge, enclosure”) + thorn.

Etymology 2

haw ("hedge") + thorn

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