thorn
IPA: θˈɔrn
noun
- (botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.
- Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
- (figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
- A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a thorn bush.
- A place name:
- A hamlet in Houghton Regis parish, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0024).
- A village in Maasgouw municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.
- An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States.
- Former name of Whitethorn, Humboldt County, California.
verb
- To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).
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Examples of "thorn" in Sentences
- He was brutally hurt by thorns.
- The thorn often prickles dogs in the field.
- It was a thorn in the flesh of the bourgeoisie.
- In the Bible, Paul refers to the thorn in his side.
- Thorn is the eldest of the clan and considered a sage.
- Kirikou manages to trick the sorceress and removes the thorn.
- He was very ruthless and a thorn in the side of the Guardians.
- In the South towards the Kunene are regions of dense thorn scrub.
- At Gemioncourt the Dutch troops were a thorn in the side of the French.
- At the front Androcles is portrayed that releases the lion from the thorn.
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