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hurst^¹

/hɝst/ US
/hɜːst/ UK

Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)st

Where it comes from

From Middle English hirste (“wood, grove; hillock; sandbank, sandbar”), from Old English hyrst (“hillock, eminence, height, wood, wooded eminence”), from Proto-West Germanic *hursti; akin to Dutch horst (“thicket; bird's nest”), German Horst (“thicket, nest”). Doublet of horst.

noun hursts

A wood or grove. Where, to her neighboring Chase, the curteous Forrest show’d So just conceived joy, that from each rising a hurst, Where many a goodlie Oake had carefullie been nurst,

Hurst^²

proper noun

A village in St Nicholas Hurst parish, Wokingham borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU7973).
A hamlet in Skelton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4141).
A hamlet in Moreton parish, Dorset, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY7990).
A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9400).
A hamlet in Marrick parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref NZ0402).
A hamlet in Clun parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO3180).
A suburb of Martock, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4518).
A minor city in Williamson County, Illinois.
A ghost town in Texas County, Missouri.
A city in Tarrant County, Texas.
An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia.
A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: miller, horst, hirst, hearst, woodhurst, garth, hartshorne, harthill, holmewood, woodlands, haywood, highwood, ashurst wood, studholme, hillock, grove

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noun a wood or grove

Русский	роща rošča

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@misc{hurst_2026,
  title = {hurst},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hurst},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}