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Nash

adj · name · noun · 18 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /næʃ/
  • rhymes with -æʃ
  • homophone: gnash
  • CMU ARPABET: N AE1 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Alternative spelling of nesh.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, alt-of, alternative, dialectal

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2

name

Meaning 2

A placename

A locale in the United Kingdom: the names are derived from Middle English atten ash (“at the ash tree”).

A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP7834).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 3

A placename

A locale in the United Kingdom: the names are derived from Middle English atten ash (“at the ash tree”).

A hamlet near Keston, borough of Bromley, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4063).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 4

A placename

A locale in the United Kingdom: the names are derived from Middle English atten ash (“at the ash tree”).

A hamlet in Rodd, Nash and Little Brampton parish, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO3062).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 5

A placename

A locale in the United Kingdom: the names are derived from Middle English atten ash (“at the ash tree”).

A hamlet in Ash parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2659).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 6

A placename

A locale in the United Kingdom: the names are derived from Middle English atten ash (“at the ash tree”).

A village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO6071).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 7

A placename

A locale in the United Kingdom: the names are derived from Middle English atten ash (“at the ash tree”).

A hamlet in East Coker parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST5313).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 8

A placename

A locale in the United Kingdom: the names are derived from Middle English atten ash (“at the ash tree”).

A village and community in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3483).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 9

A placename

A locale in the United States:

A census-designated place in Walsh County, North Dakota; named for the Nash brothers, early settlers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 10

A placename

A locale in the United States:

A town in Grant County, Oklahoma.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 11

A placename

A locale in the United States:

A city in Bowie County, Texas; named for railroad executive Martin Manny Nash.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 12

A placename

A village in Gilan Province, Iran.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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13

name

Meaning 13

A surname.

An English habitational surname from Middle English from the places in England.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 14

A surname.

A habitational surname from Irish of Anglo-Norman origin, an anglicization of Irish de Nais or de Nás, both from the English surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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name

Meaning 15

A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern America usage.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

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16

noun

Meaning 16

A former make of American automobile manufactured by Nash Motors, and later American Motors Corporation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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17

noun

Meaning 17

Abbreviation of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

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18

noun

Meaning 18

United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Ogden Nash

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: writer, author

History

Etymology

Dialectal variant of gnash.

Across languages

Translations

5 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 納什 /纳什 (Nàshí) — village in Wales
  • Marathi: नॅश (nĕś) — village in Wales
  • Welsh: Trefonnen — village in Wales
  • Marathi: नाश (nāś) — village in Iran
  • Persian: ناش — village in Iran