Hurst Definition

hʉrst
noun
A hillock, knoll, or mound.
Webster's New World
A grove or wooded hillock.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A surname​.

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Other Word Forms of Hurst

Noun

Singular:
hurst
Plural:
hursts

Origin of Hurst

  • From Middle English hirst (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-Germanic *hurstiz; akin to German Horst (“thicket, nest”)

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Hurst Sentence Examples

  • It reduces the breadth of the Solent to a little over 4 m., and broadens at the end, on which stands Hurst Castle, an important fortification dating from the time of Henry VIII.

  • The anatomy of Distomum hepaticum is fully described in many accessible memoirs [Sommer (io), Marshall and Hurst, Braun (3)].

  • If the egg with its contained embryo falls into water E (All from Marshall and Hurst, after Thomas.) FIG.

  • C. C. Hurst, more recently, has shown that albino rabbits, whether pure bred for eight generations at least, or extracted from pigmented parents, may carry the determinants for black or for black and grey.

  • C. C. Hurst has shown that the long-haired and albino characters are always accompanied in heredity with the swaying habit.

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Words Starting With

HHUHUR

Words Ending With

TSTRST

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