Definitions for acorn
ˈeɪ kɔrn, ˈeɪ kərnacorn

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. acornnoun

   fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. acornnoun

   The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

2. acornnoun

   A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

3. acornnoun

   See acorn-shell.

4. Etymology: acorne, an alteration (after corn) of earlier akern, from æcern, from akranan, from hₐógehₐ-. Cognate with East Frisian äkkene, Flemish aker, Danish agern; and with Irish áirne, Lithuanian uoga, Russian ягода.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Acornnoun

   The seed or fruit born by the oak.

   Etymology: Æcern, Sax. from ac , an oak, and corn, corn or grain; that is, the grain of the oak.

   What roots old-age contracteth into errours, and how such as are but acorns in our younger brows, grow oaks in our older heads, and become inflexible. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours. Pref. to.

   Content with food which nature freely bred,
   On wildings and on strawberries they fed;
   Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest,
   And falling acorns furnish’d out a feast. John Dryden, Ovid.

   He that is nourished by the acorns he picked up under an oak, or the apples he gathered from the trees in the wood, has certainly appropriated them to himself. John Locke.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. acorn

   An acorn is the nut or fruit produced by the oak tree, often encapsulated in a hard outer shell and attached to a cup-like structure known as the cap. It is a major source of food for wildlife and can also grow into a new tree.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Acornnoun

   the fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule

2. Acornnoun

   a cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head

3. Acornnoun

   see Acorn-shell

4. Etymology: [AS. cern, fr. cer field, acre; akin to D. aker acorn, Ger. ecker, Icel. akarn, Dan. agern, Goth. akran fruit, akrs field; -- orig. fruit of the field. See Acre.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Acorn

   The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives. It usually contains a single seed, enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. Acorns vary from 1–6 cm long and 0.8–4 cm broad. Acorns take between about 6 and 24 months to mature; see List of Quercus species for details of oak classification, in which acorn morphology and phenology are important factors.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Acorn

   ā′korn, n. the seed or fruit of the oak.—adj. A′corned.—n. A′corn-shell, a name for the Balănus (L., acorn), a genus of Cirripedes in the class Crustacea. [A.S. æcern, prob. from æcer, field, hence meaning 'the fruit of the unenclosed land.' The modern form is due to confusion with oak (A.S. ác) and corn.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. acorn

   A type of fruit produced by a variety of trees.

   The acorn is a fruit of the oak tree and other trees.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on May 21, 2016  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ACORN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Acorn is ranked #68770 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Acorn surname appeared 286 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Acorn.
   
   77.9% or 223 total occurrences were White.
   7.3% or 21 total occurrences were Black.
   6.2% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   5.2% or 15 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Fruit

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Anagrams for acorn »

1. caron

2. Coran

3. narco

4. racon

5. acron

How to pronounce acorn?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say acorn in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of acorn in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of acorn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of acorn in a Sentence

1. Shakespeare:

   Get lost, you dwarf, you weed, you scrap, you acorn.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

3. June Spencer:

   In 1950 I helped to plant an acorn. It took root and in January 1951 it was planted out and called' The Archers,' over the years it has thrived and become a splendid great tree with many branches.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=acorn
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Acorn
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=acorn
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acorn
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=acorn
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=acorn
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
9. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn