chestnut
part of speech
noun (a chestnut, chestnuts); adjective (chestnut hair, a chestnut horse)
meaning for a pupil
1) A chestnut is a shiny reddish-brown nut that grows inside a prickly case on a chestnut tree; sweet chestnuts can be roasted and eaten. tree →
2) A chestnut is also the tree itself. tree →
3) Chestnut is a reddish-brown colour, often of hair or a horse. tree →
4) «An old chestnut» is a joke or story that has been told too many times. tree →
sense in the lessons
In nature lessons and autumn walks children collect chestnuts. Horse chestnuts (conkers in the UK and Ireland) are not for eating; sweet chestnuts are roasted at markets in winter. Phrases: roasted chestnuts, horse chestnut, chestnut tree, chestnut hair, an old chestnut.
examples
- We collected shiny chestnuts in the park. tree →
- The chestnut case was covered in sharp spikes. tree →
- Roasted chestnuts smell wonderful in winter. tree →
- She has long chestnut hair. tree →
- The farmer rode a chestnut horse. tree →
- A huge chestnut tree shades the playground. tree →
- Don't eat horse chestnuts; they can make you sick. tree →
- Grandpa told that old chestnut about the talking dog again. tree →
- It is like entering a grove of chestnut and walnut-trees. tree →
note
Countable: a chestnut, chestnuts. The «t» in the middle is usually silent: CHES-nut. Trap: horse chestnuts (conkers) look like sweet chestnuts but are poisonous to eat. As a colour word it comes before a noun (chestnut hair).
In the corpora
- A cut horse chestnut twig kept in water indoors opens its buds early.
- Maddie climbed the tallest horse chestnut in the park and refused to come down for tea.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «chestnut» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.