Chestnut
noun
A large edible nut that is produced by a chestnut tree.
I love roasting chestnuts during the holiday season.
Often appears as...
- roasted chestnuts
- fresh chestnuts
noun
A reddish-brown color like the color of a chestnut.
Her chestnut hair was shining in the sun.
Often appears as...
- chestnut hair
- chestnut horse
noun
A joke or story that has been repeated many times.
His jokes are old chestnuts that we've all heard before.
Often appears as...
- old chestnut
- chestnut joke
Usage tips
Disapproving
Idiomatic
noun
A horse of a reddish-brown or golden-brown color.
Look at that chestnut galloping across the field.
Often appears as...
- chestnut mare
- chestnut stallion
noun
A large edible nut that is produced by a chestnut tree.
I love roasting chestnuts during the holiday season.
Often appears as...
- roasted chestnuts
- fresh chestnuts
noun
A reddish-brown color like the color of a chestnut.
Her chestnut hair was shining in the sun.
Often appears as...
- chestnut hair
- chestnut horse
noun
A joke or story that has been repeated many times.
His jokes are old chestnuts that we've all heard before.
Often appears as...
- old chestnut
- chestnut joke
Usage tips
Disapproving
Idiomatic
noun
A horse of a reddish-brown or golden-brown color.
Look at that chestnut galloping across the field.
Often appears as...
- chestnut mare
- chestnut stallion
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Holiday Connection
Associated with festive traditions, especially in winter or Christmas.
Let's go to the market to get some chestnuts!
Pro Tip 2/3Edible Nuts
Counter to some nut names, 'chestnut' refers to both the tree and its edible product.
Chestnut stuffing is my favorite for Thanksgiving.
Pro Tip 3/3Preparation Variety
Can be prepared in diverse ways, often roasted, boiled, or as an ingredient.
We're adding chestnuts to our vegetable stew.
Pro Tip 1/3Holiday Connection
Associated with festive traditions, especially in winter or Christmas.
Let's go to the market to get some chestnuts!
Pro Tip 2/3Edible Nuts
Counter to some nut names, 'chestnut' refers to both the tree and its edible product.
Chestnut stuffing is my favorite for Thanksgiving.
Pro Tip 3/3Preparation Variety
Can be prepared in diverse ways, often roasted, boiled, or as an ingredient.
We're adding chestnuts to our vegetable stew.
Pro Tip 1/3Holiday Connection
Associated with festive traditions, especially in winter or Christmas.
Let's go to the market to get some chestnuts!
Pro Tip 2/3Edible Nuts
Counter to some nut names, 'chestnut' refers to both the tree and its edible product.
Chestnut stuffing is my favorite for Thanksgiving.
Pro Tip 3/3Preparation Variety
Can be prepared in diverse ways, often roasted, boiled, or as an ingredient.
We're adding chestnuts to our vegetable stew.
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How to Plant a Tree PIPE...
solar energy to carry out its photosynthesis and make Chinese chestnuts eventually so let's go ahead and stick it right here did I mention that I'm a space wizard so you want to put the tree this deep in the ground right so you don't want to plant you know have the soil up here down here you
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
he said that he could differentiate between the semen of a young man, which he said had a fresh, exhilarating smell, and the semen of mature men, whose semen smelled, quote, "Remarkably like that of the flowers of the Spanish chestnut. Sometimes quite freshly floral,
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What hallucination...
or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past. You're at a particular road junction. You smell chestnuts roasting.
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A Nat Geo Earth Day...
chestnut tree repair this is a solar powered electric powered beach cleaning robot and get a firsthand look at what it takes to save the planet you're about to enter the largest vertical farm in the world yes what we meet up with national geographic
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Ryan Phelan: The...
These are all bold initiatives. Engineering coral to withstand warming waters, restoring the American chestnut tree, the genetic rescue of the black-footed ferret. All of these initiatives will require public engagement and public support.
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What Makes a Job "Good"...
It's an old corporate chestnut that our employees are our most valuable asset. Today those words ring as hollow as the automated voice, telling us how important our call is when we've been on hold for 10 minutes.
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Into the Forests PIPE...
especially in a city like new york okay high five babe our tree welcome to our chestnut tree with those roots firmly in the ground we head south to meet a scientist who has spent her life in the tree tops
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Do schools kill...
Remember that old chestnut? I saw a great T-shirt recently, which said, "If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"
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Protecting New York...
more radically by celebrating the chestnut Oaks back row here the metallic bees that buzz here and places for all of us to take all of it in thank you
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"East Virginia" / "John...
Her hair was a dark-brown curly. Her cheeks were chestnut red.
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How to Plant a Tree PIPE...
solar energy to carry out its photosynthesis and make Chinese chestnuts eventually so let's go ahead and stick it right here did I mention that I'm a space wizard so you want to put the tree this deep in the ground right so you don't want to plant you know have the soil up here down here you
Video examples
Mary Roach: 10 things...
he said that he could differentiate between the semen of a young man, which he said had a fresh, exhilarating smell, and the semen of mature men, whose semen smelled, quote, "Remarkably like that of the flowers of the Spanish chestnut. Sometimes quite freshly floral,
Video examples
What hallucination...
or that's how people think about it. There is also a rare thing called temporal lobe epilepsy, and sometimes, if one has this, one may feel oneself transported back to a time and place in the past. You're at a particular road junction. You smell chestnuts roasting.
Video examples
A Nat Geo Earth Day...
chestnut tree repair this is a solar powered electric powered beach cleaning robot and get a firsthand look at what it takes to save the planet you're about to enter the largest vertical farm in the world yes what we meet up with national geographic
Video examples
Ryan Phelan: The...
These are all bold initiatives. Engineering coral to withstand warming waters, restoring the American chestnut tree, the genetic rescue of the black-footed ferret. All of these initiatives will require public engagement and public support.
Video examples
What Makes a Job "Good"...
It's an old corporate chestnut that our employees are our most valuable asset. Today those words ring as hollow as the automated voice, telling us how important our call is when we've been on hold for 10 minutes.
Video examples
Into the Forests PIPE...
especially in a city like new york okay high five babe our tree welcome to our chestnut tree with those roots firmly in the ground we head south to meet a scientist who has spent her life in the tree tops
Video examples
Do schools kill...
Remember that old chestnut? I saw a great T-shirt recently, which said, "If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"
Video examples
Protecting New York...
more radically by celebrating the chestnut Oaks back row here the metallic bees that buzz here and places for all of us to take all of it in thank you
Video examples
"East Virginia" / "John...
Her hair was a dark-brown curly. Her cheeks were chestnut red.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts.
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Claire Saffitz
American Editor
I made my first Yule Log as a culinary student in Paris, complete with the traditional chestnut filling, silky chocolate buttercream, and almost-too-adorable mushrooms. Since then, I've tweaked and updated both the recipe and the process - and I've definitely learned tips and tricks to make it easier.
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Robert Fripp
English Musician
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
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Geoffrey Zakarian
American Chef
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
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Garrett Hardin
American Environmentalist
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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David Leitch
American Actor
I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.
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Mary Nightingale
First off, it's a bit of a tired old chestnut that if a woman is pretty than she can't be bright. God what are we in, the 19th century?
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E. Y. Harburg
American Musician
April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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Caroline Knapp
American Writer
When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts.
Quote examples
Claire Saffitz
American Editor
I made my first Yule Log as a culinary student in Paris, complete with the traditional chestnut filling, silky chocolate buttercream, and almost-too-adorable mushrooms. Since then, I've tweaked and updated both the recipe and the process - and I've definitely learned tips and tricks to make it easier.
Quote examples
Robert Fripp
English Musician
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
Quote examples
Geoffrey Zakarian
American Chef
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.
Quote examples
Emily Dickinson
American Poet
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
Quote examples
Garrett Hardin
American Environmentalist
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Quote examples
David Leitch
American Actor
I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.
Quote examples
Mary Nightingale
First off, it's a bit of a tired old chestnut that if a woman is pretty than she can't be bright. God what are we in, the 19th century?
Quote examples
E. Y. Harburg
American Musician
April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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