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say it: CHEH-snuht
chestnut is a noun and adjective meaning "wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea". It is pronounced /ˈtʃɛˌsnʌt/ — CHEH-snuht. It carries 7 recorded senses.
wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur
edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
the brown color of chestnuts
a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg
a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse
(of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color
“a chestnut horse”
“chestnut hair”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chestnut come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.