Chestnut

Etymology
Formerly chesten: nut:, from chasteine:, from  chastaigne:, from  castanea:, from  καστάνεια:.

Noun

 * 1) A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
 * 2) The nut of this tree or shrub.
 * 3) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color.
 * 4) A reddish-brown horse.
 * 5) The wood of a chestnut tree.
 * 6)  (Often "old chestnut") A worn-out meme; a work so often repeated as to have grown tiresome.
 * 7) A part of a horse found on the inner leg, similar to a birthmark on a human.
 * 1) A part of a horse found on the inner leg, similar to a birthmark on a human.

Synonyms

 * chestnut tree

Adjective

 * 1) Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.

Thesaurus
Joe Miller, Titian, adust, auburn, banality, bay, bay-colored, bayard, brazen, bromide, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, brownish-red, buckskin, calico pony, carroty, castaneous, chestnut-brown, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, copper, copper-colored, coppery, corn, cupreous, dapple-gray, dun, erythristic, familiar tune, ferruginous, foxy, gray, grizzle, hackneyed saying, henna, joke with whiskers, lieu commun, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, locus communis, mahogany, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, old turkey, old wheeze, paint, painted pony, piebald, pinto, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, prose, red-crested, red-haired, red-polled, red-tufted, reddish-brown, reiteration, retold story, roan, rubiginous, rufous, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, skewbald, sorrel, stereotyped saying, sunburned, terra-cotta, trite joke, trite saying, triticism, twice-told tale, warmed-over cabbage, xanthous

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: şabalıd
 * Belarusian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: castanya,
 * Cherokee: ᏘᎵ
 * Chinese: 板栗 (bǎnlì), 栗子 (lìzi)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: kastanje, tamme kastanje
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Esskastanie
 * Greek: κάστανο
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 栗 (kuri)


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: kastanis
 * Lithuanian: kaštonas
 * Macedonian: костен
 * Manx: castan
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: castanha
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: castană
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: castan
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: кестен
 * Roman: kesten
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: kastanj
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: kätan, kätuk


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian: kestenjasta
 * Bulgarian: кестеняв
 * Catalan: castanya
 * Danish: kastanjebrun
 * Dutch: kastanjebruin
 * Finnish: kastanjanruskea, pähkinänruskea
 * French:
 * German: Kastanienbraun
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 栗色 (kuriiro)


 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: костенлива
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: каштановый (kaštánovyj) hair color,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: кестењаста
 * Roman: kestenjasta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: kastanjebrunt
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: дорест кон
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: fux


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: クリ材 (kurizai)


 * Macedonian: костен
 * Russian:
 * Turkish:


 * : 밤 (bam)

Derived terms

 * American chestnut
 * chestnut blight
 * chestnut oak
 * chestnut tree
 * dwarf chestnut
 * horse chestnut


 * Moreton Bay chestnut
 * pull chestnuts out of the fire
 * Spanish chestnut
 * sweet chestnut
 * water chestnut

Adjective

 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: кестеняв
 * Cyrillic: кестењаст
 * Danish: kastanjebrun
 * Dutch: kastanjebruin, kastanjebruine
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian: castano (of hair)
 * Macedonian: костенлива
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: каштановый (kaštánovyj) hair color
 * Serbian:
 * Roman: kestenjast

Related terms

 * castanet