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acorn¹

  • /ˈeɪ.kɔɹn/ US
  • /ˈeɪkɚn/ US
  • /ˈeɪ.kɔːn/ UK

Rhymes with -eɪkɔː(ɹ)n, -eɪkə(ɹ)n

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną (“fruit; acorn, nut”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots aicorn (“acorn”), Dutch aker (“acorn”), German Ecker (“acorn”), Danish agern (“acorn”), Faroese and Icelandic akarn (“acorn”), Norwegian Nynorsk åkorn (“acorn”), Gothic 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽 (akran, “fruit”); Irish airne (“sloe”), Welsh aeron (“berries; small fruits”), eirin (“plums”), Latgalian ūga (“berry”), Latvian oga (“berry”), Lithuanian uoga (“berry”), Belarusian я́гада (jáhada, “berry”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian я́года (jáhoda, “berry”), Czech and Slovak jahoda (“strawberry”), Macedonian ја́года (jágoda, “strawberry”), Polish and Slovene jagoda (“berry”), Serbo-Croatian ја̏года, jȁgoda (“strawberry”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B oko (“fruit”). Not related to Old English āc (“oak”), corn (“corn, seed”) or Middle English acquerne.

noun acorns · achorn

  1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  2. A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  3. See acorn-shell.
  4. informal The glans penis. The Romans, likewise, represented the uncouth Priapus—the god of rustic fertility and sexual assault—as comically well endowed, with his acorn showing.
  5. plural normally, slang A testicle.

ACORN²

proper noun

  1. US, abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: nut, gland, cap, penis, tip, dark, dickhead, blinkered, blind, wanton, random, mindless, indiscriminate, squash, oak tree, overcup

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noun fruit of the oak tree

Españolbellota, llande, lande
한국어도토리 dotori
日本語どんぐり donguri, 団栗 donguri
中文橡子 xiàngzǐ, 橡果 xiàngguǒ
हिन्दीबाँजफल bāñjphal
Portuguêsbolota, lande
Françaisgland
DeutschEichel
Italianoghianda
Ελληνικάβελανίδι velanídi
Românăghindă
Русскийжёлудь žóludʹ
Tiếng Việthạt sồi
العربيةبَلُّوط ballūṭ, بَلُّوطَة ballūṭa
עבריתבַּלּוּט balút

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@misc{acorn_2026,
  title = {acorn},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/acorn},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}