Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable)An edible nut (technically a fruit) of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a nut from a related shrub or tree; or a similar nut from an unrelated plant.

    Kastanie, Edelkastanie, Esskastanie

    кашта́нkaštán

    кашта́нkaštán

    edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea

  2. (countable)In full chestnut tree: the shrub or tree that bears this nut, the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a shrub or tree of the genus Castanea.

    wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea

  3. In full chestnut tree: the shrub or tree that bears this nut, the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa); also (chiefly preceded by a descriptive word), a shrub or tree of the genus Castanea.

    (uncountable)Wood of a chestnut tree.

    Kastanie

    кашта́нkaštán

  4. Things resembling a chestnut fruit in appearance or colour.

    (broadly, uncountable)A dark, reddish-brown colour, like that of chestnut fruit (noun sense 1).

    Kastanienbraun

    кашта́новыйkaštánovyj

    a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse

  5. (broadly, countable)A horse with a reddish-brown coat, mane and tail.

    Fuchs

    гнеда́я ло́шадьgnedája lóšadʹ, гнедо́йgnedój, гнедо́й коньgnedój konʹ

    гнідийhnidyj, гнідаhnida, гнідеhnide

  6. (broadly, countable)An oval or round horny plate located on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other equines, which is thought by some people to correspond with the thumbnail of other animals.

    a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg

  7. (countable, figuratively)Chiefly in old chestnut: a joke, meme, phrase, ploy, etc. which has been repeated so often as to have grown ineffective or tiresome; a cliché.

Examples

57 sentences
  1. I like roasted chestnuts.

    Мені подобаються печені каштани.

    deIch mag Röstkastanien.

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  2. He cleared the street of chestnuts.

    ruОн очистил улицу от каштанов.

    deEr fegte die Kastanien von der Straße.

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  3. Tom wanted to help Mary pick up chestnuts.

    deTom wollte Mary dabei helfen, Kastanien zu sammeln.

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  4. Mary says she knows Tom can't eat chestnuts.

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  5. Tom says he knows Mary can't eat chestnuts.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
edible nut of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); nut from a related shrub or tree; similar nut from an unrelated plant:
horse with a reddish-brown coat:
Русский
By meaning 3
edible nut of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); nut from a related shrub or tree; similar nut from an unrelated plant:
dark, reddish-brown colour:
horse with a reddish-brown coat:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
edible nut of the Spanish chestnut or sweet chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); nut from a related shrub or tree; similar nut from an unrelated plant:
dark, reddish-brown colour:
horse with a reddish-brown coat:

Origin

The noun is a contraction of chest(en) (“(obsolete) chestnut tree; fruit of this tree, che

The noun is a contraction of chest(en) (“(obsolete) chestnut tree; fruit of this tree, chestnut”) + nut. Chesten is a late variant of chesteine (obsolete), from Middle English chesten, chesteine, chasteine, chesteyne (“chestnut tree (Castanea sativa); fruit of this tree; wood of this tree”), from Old French chastaigne, chastaine (French châtaigne), from Latin castanea (“chestnut tree; fruit of this tree”) (whence Old English ċisten), from Ancient Greek κᾰστᾰ́νειᾰ (kăstắneiă), a variant of κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kắstănă, “sweet chestnut”); for further etymology, see that entry. Doublet of castanet.

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Forms

plural: chestnuts

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur:chestnut tree

Word family

14 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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