Dictionary Entry
thorn
thorn is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
- 2noun
Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
- 3noun
Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
- 4noun
The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.
- 5transitive verb
To prick, as with a thorn.
- 6noun
something that causes irritation and annoyance
"he's a thorn in my flesh"
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- 7noun
a Germanic character of runic origin
- 8noun
a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
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