chestnut

1. 1.

   wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea

   Broaderwood
2. 2.

   any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur

   Synonymschestnut tree

   Broadertree

   NarrowerAmerican chestnutEuropean chestnutChinese chestnutJapanese chestnutAllegheny chinkapinOzark chinkapin

   Part ofCastanea
3. 3.

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

   Broaderedible nut
4. 4.

   the brown color of chestnuts

   Broaderbrown
5. 5.

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

   Broadercallus
6. 6.

   a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse

   Broaderhorse

1. 1.

   (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color

   “a chestnut horse”

   “chestnut hair”

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of chestnut

plural

chestnuts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chestnut

What does chestnut mean?

chestnut means "wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chestnut?

chestnut has 2 syllables: chest-nut. The stress falls on "chest". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɛˌsnʌt/.

What is another word for chestnut?

Close synonyms include chestnut tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chestnut a common word?

chestnut is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.