thorn

Definition of thorn in English English dictionary: A topographic surname for someone living near a thorn bush; A sharp protective spine of a plant; A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh; To pierce with, or as if with, a [[#Noun|thorn]]; {n} a small and prickly tree, a difficult point; {i} sharp nub, prickle, spine; Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn; Thorns are the sharp points on some plants and trees, for example on a rose bush; a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf; something that causes irritation and annoyance; "he's a thorn in my flesh"; A sharp woody outgrowth of a stem; Fig; To prick, as with a thorn; That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care; Þ : Runic character that was adopted into English Spelling by King Alfred It is still used in Icelandic script; So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine; A collection of subroutines with a definite interface and purpose; The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter &?;, capital form &?; A thorn or a thorn bush or a thorn tree is a bush or tree which has a lot of thorns on it. the shade of a thorn bush; (1 ) Heb hedek (Prov 15: 19), rendered "brier" in Micah 7: 4 Some thorny plant, of the Solanum family, suitable for hedges This is probably the so-called "apple of Sodom," which grows very abundantly in the Jordan valley "It is a shrubby plant, from 3 to 5 feet high, with very branching stems, thickly clad with spines, like those of the English brier, with leaves very large and woolly on the under side, and thorny on the midriff "; a Germanic character of runic origin; a sharp spine; A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine; A sharply pointed structure formed from a modified branch; It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then; If you describe someone or something as a thorn in your side or a thorn in your flesh, you mean that they are a continuous problem to you or annoy you. The Party was a thorn in the flesh of his coalition
thorn apple: The annual plant Datura stramonium, having white flowers and prickly capsules
thorn in someone's side: A persistent annoyance
thorn in the flesh: A persistent difficulty or something very annoying that will not go away
the growth of new middle and upper classes remains a thorn in the flesh to the Communist Party.
thorn apple: any of several plants of the genus Datura
thorn in his flesh: constant irritant, something which is very bothersome and cannot be avoided or escaped
thorn in his side: constant irritant, something which is very bothersome and cannot be avoided or escaped
thorn in one's flesh: constant irritant, something which is very bothersome and cannot be avoided or escaped
thorn in one's side: pain in the ass, nudge, disturber
thorn-bush: type of bush that has sharp briars
Jerusalem thorn: A spiny tropical American tree (Parkinsonia aculeata) having clusters of yellow flowers, green branches, and bipinnately compound leaves
christ's-thorn: thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit
cockspur thorn: eastern United States hawthorn with long straight thorns
crucifixion thorn: Any of several unrelated shrubs or small trees of desert regions in the southwest United States and Mexico, having tiny, early deciduous leaves and branches and stems resembling a mass of thorns
evergreen thorn: evergreen hawthorn of southeastern Europe
fire thorn: Any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha, native to Asia and often cultivated for their evergreen foliage and showy reddish or orange berries
glastonbury thorn: A variety of the common hawthorn
hedge thorn: South African shrub having forked spines and plumlike fruit; frequently used as hedging
jerusalem thorn: large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States
like a thorn in his side: like a pain in the neck, like a troublesome situation, like something that a person does not need or want
mysore thorn: spreading thorny shrub of tropical Asia bearing large erect racemes of red-marked yellow flowers
no rose without a thorn: nothing good can exist without also a few bad qualities
thornless: Destitute of, or free from, thorns
thornless: having no thorns
thorns: plural of thorn

thorn

Turkish pronunciation

thôrn

Pronunciation

/ˈᴛʜôrn/ /ˈθɔːrn/

Etymology

[ thorn ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Middle English þorn and Old English þorn, from Proto-Germanic *thurn(u)-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter-n- (“sharp stalk or thorn”), possibly derived from *ster- (“stiff”). Near cognates include German Dorn and Gothic

Tenses

thorns, thorning, thorned

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