Hearst

//hɝst// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A hind in her second or third year.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in California.
  3. 3
    A town in Ontario, Canada.

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps related to Middle English hert (“male or female deer”), whence English hart.

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