name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
horst
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Pronunciation
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/hɔːst/
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rhymes with -ɔːst
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homophone: horsed
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CMU ARPABET: HH AO1 R S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has been raised relative to the surrounding area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
Examples
- 1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19, Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.
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noun
Meaning 3
a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Broader terms: crust, Earth's crust
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German and Dutch Horst.
From German Horst (“heap”). Doublet of hurst.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: hrást — raised portion of Earth's surface
- Finnish: horsti — raised portion of Earth's surface
- German: Horst — raised portion of Earth's surface
- German: Horstscholle — raised portion of Earth's surface
- Polish: zrąb tektoniczny — raised portion of Earth's surface
- Portuguese: horst — raised portion of Earth's surface
- Spanish: macizo tectónico — raised portion of Earth's surface
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