Definizione monolingua

thorn

thorn (third-person singular simple present thorns, present participle thorning, simple past and past participle thorned)

1. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn
   • 1869, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Old Town Folks^[1]:

     […] human nature is, above all things, lazy, and needs to be thorned and goaded up those heights where it ought to fly.

   • 2003, Scott D. Zachary, Scorn This, page 175:

     Even Judge Bradleys callused sentiments were thorned by the narration of Jaclyns journals.

thorn (plural thorns)

1. A sharp protective spine of a plant.
2. A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh
   • See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

Definizione dizionario thorn

	spina
	sharp protective spine of a plant
	A sharp and hard structure that grows on a plant.

	aculeo
	sharp protective spine of a plant

ago

spillo

spino

Altri significati:

letter of the Latin alphabet (Þ, þ)

To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn

A sharp protective spine of a plant.

A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh

thorn (used figuratively as an obstacle or source of difficulty)