Definition of ACORN

acorn

Meanings

Plural: acorns

Noun

  • fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
  • The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  • A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  • See acorn-shell.
  • The glans penis.
  • A testicle.

Origin / Etymology

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, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Tocharian B oko (“fruit”), Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian я́года (jágoda, “berry”), etc. Not related to Old English āc (“oak”), corn (“corn, seed”) or Middle English acquerne.

Scrabble Score: 7

acorn is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
acorn is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
acorn is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

acorn is a valid Words With Friends word