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walnut

adj · name · noun · 20 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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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɔːlnʌt/
  • General-American: /ˈwɔlnət/
  • General-American: /ˈwɔlˌnʌt/
  • cot-caught-merger: /ˈwɑlnət/
  • cot-caught-merger: /ˈwɑlˌnʌt/
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  • CMU ARPABET: W AO1 L N AH2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

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2

name

Meaning 2

A number of places in the United States:

A city in Los Angeles County, California.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

name

Meaning 3

A number of places in the United States:

A ghost town in Lumpkin County, Georgia, named for walnut trees.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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4

name

Meaning 4

A number of places in the United States:

A township and village therein, in Bureau County, Illinois.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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5

name

Meaning 5

A number of places in the United States:

A township and unincorporated community therein, in Marshall County, Indiana.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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6

name

Meaning 6

A number of places in the United States:

A minor city in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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7

name

Meaning 7

A number of places in the United States:

A minor city in Crawford County, Kansas, named after Little Walnut Creek.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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8

name

Meaning 8

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Tippah County, Mississippi.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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9

name

Meaning 9

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, named after Walnut Creek.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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10

name

Meaning 10

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Knox County, Nebraska, named for walnut trees.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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11

name

Meaning 11

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Madison County, North Carolina, named after the Walnut Mountains.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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12

name

Meaning 12

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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13

name

Meaning 13

A number of places in the United States:

A number of other townships, listed under Walnut Township.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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14

noun

Meaning 14

A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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15

noun

Meaning 15

A nut of the walnut tree.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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16

noun

Meaning 16

Wood of the walnut tree.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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17

noun

Meaning 17

Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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18

noun

Meaning 18

nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: edible nut

Narrower terms: black walnut, English walnut

19

noun

Meaning 19

any of various trees of the genus Juglans

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: walnut tree

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: nut tree

Narrower terms: California black walnut, Juglans californica, butternut, butternut tree, white walnut, Juglans cinerea, black walnut, black walnut tree, black hickory, Juglans nigra, English walnut, English walnut tree, Circassian walnut, Persian walnut, Juglans regia

20

noun

Meaning 20

hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: wood

History

Etymology

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.

Across languages

Translations

301 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: орехов (orehov) — colour
  • Hungarian: diófaszínű — colour
  • Ido: nucea — colour
  • Italian: noce — colour
  • Japanese: くるみ色の (kurumiiro no) — colour
  • Polish: orzechowy — colour
  • Russian: оре́ховый (oréxovyj) — colour
  • Spanish: nogal — colour
  • Abenaki: pagimen — nut
  • Albanian: arrë — nut
  • Southern Altai: кузук (kuzuk) — nut
  • Arabic: جَوْز (jawz) — nut
  • Arabic: جوز (gōz) — nut
  • Arabic: جوزة (gōza) — nut
  • Arabic: جوز (jōz) — nut
  • Arabic: ڭرڭاع (gargāʕ) — nut
  • Arabic: ڭرڭاعة (gargāʕa) — nut
  • Armenian: պոպոկ (popok) — nut
  • Armenian: ընկույզ (ənkuyz) — nut
  • Aromanian: nucã — nut
  • Asturian: nuez — nut
  • Azerbaijani: qoz — nut
  • Bashkir: сәтләүек (sətləwek) — nut
  • Basque: intxaur — nut
  • Bengali: আখরোট (akhorōṭ) — nut
  • Bulgarian: орех (oreh) — nut
  • Catalan: nou — nut
  • Chinese Cantonese: 合桃 (hap6 tou4) — nut
  • Chinese: хәту (hətu) — nut
  • Chinese Mandarin: 核桃 (hétao) — nut
  • Chuvash: мӑйӑр (măjăr) — nut
  • West Circassian: дэ (dɛ) — nut
  • Crimean Tatar: ceviz — nut
  • Czech: vlašský ořech — nut
  • Danish: valnød — nut
  • Dutch: walnoot — nut
  • Dutch: okkernoot — nut
  • Esperanto: juglando — nut
  • Esperanto: juglandonukso — nut
  • Estonian: kreeka pähkel — nut
  • Faroese: valnøt — nut
  • Finnish: saksanpähkinä — nut
  • French: noix — nut
  • Gagauz: ceviz — nut
  • Galician: noz — nut
  • Galician: concho — nut
  • Georgian: ნიგოზი (nigozi) — nut
  • Georgian: კაკალი (ḳaḳali) — nut
  • German: Walnuss — nut
  • Gilaki: آغوز — nut
  • Greek: καρύδι (karýdi) — nut
  • Greenlandic: valnødi — nut
  • Hawaiian: walanuka — nut
  • Hebrew: אגוז מלך (egóz mélekh) — nut
  • Hindi: अखरोट (akhroṭ) — nut
  • Hungarian: dió — nut
  • Icelandic: valhneta — nut
  • Ido: nuco — nut
  • Irish: cnó francach — nut
  • Irish: cnó gallda — nut
  • Irish: gallchnó — nut
  • Italian: noce — nut
  • Japanese: クルミ (kurumi) — nut
  • Kalasha: bribó — nut
  • Kazakh: жаңғақ (jañğaq) — nut
  • Khalaj: yağâq — nut
  • Khowar: بیرموغ (birmóġ) — nut
  • Korean: 호두 (hodu) — nut
  • Central Kurdish: گوێز (gwêz) — nut
  • Northern Kurdish: gûz — nut
  • Kyrgyz: жаңгак (jaŋgak) — nut
  • Ladin: cucia — nut
  • Lakota: gmá — nut
  • Latin: iūglāns — nut
  • Ligurian: nôxe — nut
  • Lombard: nos — nut
  • Low German: Wallnööt — nut
  • Malay: jauzah — nut
  • Malay: walnat — nut
  • Malay: akrot — nut
  • Malay: kacang otak — nut
  • Maltese: ġewż — nut
  • Manx: cro frangagh — nut
  • Manx: galchro — nut
  • Māori: wōnati — nut
  • Mazanderani: اغوز (ağuz) — nut
  • Mingrelian: ნეძი (neʒi) — nut
  • Mingrelian: ნეზი (nezi) — nut
  • Mohegan-Pequot: wusqatôm — nut
  • Mongolian: грек самар (grek samar) — nut
  • Navajo: haʼałtsédii — nut
  • Nogai: коз (koz) — nut
  • Norman: nouoyi — nut
  • Norwegian Bokmål: valnøtt — nut
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: valnøtt — nut
  • Occitan: notz — nut
  • Occitan: noga — nut
  • Old English: wealhhnutu — nut
  • Ossetian: ӕнгуз (ænguz) — nut
  • Pashto: اکوړ (akóṛ) — nut
  • Persian: گردو (gerdu) — nut
  • Persian: گوز (gowz) — nut
  • Plautdietsch: Waulnät — nut
  • Polish: orzech włoski — nut
  • Portuguese: noz — nut
  • Romagnol: nôșa — nut
  • Romagnol: nôș — nut
  • Romani: akhor — nut
  • Romanian: nucă — nut
  • Romansh: nusch — nut
  • Russian: гре́цкий оре́х (gréckij oréx) — nut
  • Russian: оре́х (oréx) — nut
  • Salar: qoz — nut
  • Northern Sami: valniehtti — nut
  • Sanskrit: अक्षोट (akṣoṭa) — nut
  • Sardinian: nughe — nut
  • Sardinian: cocolo — nut
  • Scottish Gaelic: cnò Fhrangach — nut
  • Scottish Gaelic: gall-chnò — nut
  • Serbo-Croatian: орах — nut
  • Serbo-Croatian: òrah — nut
  • Slovene: oreh — nut
  • Spanish: nuez — nut
  • Spanish: tocte — nut
  • Spanish: nuez de Castilla — nut
  • Spanish: nuez de la India — nut
  • Swahili: jozi — nut
  • Swedish: valnöt — nut
  • Tagalog: nogales — nut
  • Tajik: чормағз (čormaġz) — nut
  • Tamil: அக்கரோட்டு (akkarōṭṭu) — nut
  • Tatar: чикләвек (çikläwek) — nut
  • Tibetan: སྟར་ཀ — nut
  • Tibetan: སྟར་ཁ — nut
  • Torwali: آݜو (aṣō) — nut
  • Turkish: ceviz — nut
  • Turkish: koz — nut
  • Turkmen: hōz — nut
  • Ukrainian: воло́ський горі́х (volósʹkyj horíx) — nut
  • Ukrainian: гре́цький горі́х (hrécʹkyj horíx) — nut
  • Ukrainian: горі́х (horíx) — nut
  • Unami: tùkwim — nut
  • Urdu: اخروٹ (axroṭ) — nut
  • Uyghur: ياڭاق (ya'ngaq) — nut
  • Uzbek: yongʻoq — nut
  • Venetan: noxa — nut
  • Venetan: coca — nut
  • Vietnamese: óc chó — nut
  • Walloon: djaeye — nut
  • Walloon: gaeye — nut
  • Welsh: cneuen Ffrengig — nut
  • Yaghnobi: чормағз (čormaġz) — nut
  • Afrikaans: okkerneutboom — tree
  • Albanian: arrë — tree
  • Armenian: ընկուզենի (ənkuzeni) — tree
  • Aromanian: nuc — tree
  • Asturian: nozal — tree
  • Breton: kraoñenn — tree
  • Breton: gwezenn-graoñ — tree
  • Bulgarian: орех (oreh) — tree
  • Catalan: noguera — tree
  • Catalan: noguer — tree
  • Cherokee: ᏎᏗ (sedi) — tree
  • Cheyenne: otaesémenôtse — tree
  • Chinese Mandarin: 核桃树 (hétáoshù) — tree
  • West Circassian: дэ (dɛ) — tree
  • Crimean Tatar: ceviz — tree
  • Czech: ořešák — tree
  • Dalmatian: nochiera — tree
  • Danish: valnøddetræ — tree
  • Danish: valnød — tree
  • Dutch: walnotenboom — tree
  • Esperanto: juglandujo — tree
  • Esperanto: juglandarbo — tree
  • Estonian: kreeka pähklipuu — tree
  • Finnish: pähkinäpuu — tree
  • Fox: mahkwipakâni — tree
  • French: noyer — tree
  • Galician: nogueira — tree
  • Galician: concheiro — tree
  • Georgian: კაკალი (ḳaḳali) — tree
  • German: Walnuss — tree
  • German: Walnussbaum — tree
  • German: Nussbaum — tree
  • Gilaki: آغوز دار — tree
  • Greek: καρυδιά (karydiá) — tree
  • Hebrew: אֱגוֹז (egóz) — tree
  • Hindi: अखरोट (akhroṭ) — tree
  • Hungarian: diófa — tree
  • Ido: nuciero — tree
  • Irish: crann gallchnó — tree
  • Italian: noce — tree
  • Japanese: クルミの木 (kurumi no ki) — tree
  • Korean: 호두나무 (hodunamu) — tree
  • Northern Kurdish: gûz — tree
  • Northern Kurdish: dargûz — tree
  • Lakota: čhaŋsápa — tree
  • Lakota: gmahú — tree
  • Latin: iūglāns — tree
  • Lombard: nos — tree
  • Low German: Wallnööt — tree
  • Low German: Wallnöötboom — tree
  • Macedonian: орев (orev) — tree
  • Malay: walnat — tree
  • Malay: pokok walnat — tree
  • Malay: jauzah — tree
  • Manx: billey galchro — tree
  • Mazanderani: آغوز دار — tree
  • Mohegan-Pequot: wusqat — tree
  • Norman: nouoyi — tree
  • Norwegian Bokmål: valnøtt — tree
  • Norwegian Bokmål: valnøttre — tree
  • Norwegian Bokmål: valnøtt-tre — tree
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: valnøtt — tree
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: valnòttre — tree
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: valnøttre — tree
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: valnøtt-tre — tree
  • Occitan: noguièr — tree
  • Odia: ଅଖରୋଟ (akharoṭa) — tree
  • Polish: orzech włoski — tree
  • Portuguese: nogueira — tree
  • Quechua: tuqti — tree
  • Romani: akhorin — tree
  • Romanian: nuc — tree
  • Russian: оре́х (oréx) — tree
  • Sardinian: nughe — tree
  • Scottish Gaelic: crann ghall-chnò — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: орах — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: òrah — tree
  • Slovene: oreh — tree
  • Spanish: nogal — tree
  • Spanish: noguera — tree
  • Spanish: tocte — tree
  • Swahili: mjozi — tree
  • Swedish: valnötsträd — tree
  • Swedish: valnöt — tree
  • Tagalog: nogales — tree
  • Tajik: чормағз (čormaġz) — tree
  • Tibetan: སྟར་སྡོང — tree
  • Tibetan: སྟར་ཤིང — tree
  • Tibetan: སྟར་ཁའི་ཤིང — tree
  • Turkish: ceviz — tree
  • Ukrainian: воло́ський горі́х (volósʹkyj horíx) — tree
  • Ukrainian: гре́цький горі́х (hrécʹkyj horíx) — tree
  • Ukrainian: горі́х (horíx) — tree
  • Unami: tùkwimënshi — tree
  • Venetan: nogara — tree
  • Vietnamese: óc chó — tree
  • Walloon: djaeyî — tree
  • Walloon: gaeyî — tree
  • Welsh: collen Ffrengig — tree
  • Albanian: arrishtë — wood
  • Bulgarian: орех (oreh) — wood
  • Czech: vlašský ořech — wood
  • Danish: valnøddetræ — wood
  • Dutch: walnotenhout — wood
  • Estonian: pähklipuu — wood
  • Finnish: pähkinäpuu — wood
  • French: noyer — wood
  • Galician: nogueira — wood
  • German: Walnussholz — wood
  • German: Nussbaumholz — wood
  • Greek: καρυδιά (karydiá) — wood
  • Hungarian: diófa — wood
  • Irish: adhmad gallchnó — wood
  • Italian: noce — wood
  • Japanese: クルミ材 (kurumizai) — wood
  • Norwegian Bokmål: valnøtt — wood
  • Norwegian Bokmål: valnøttre — wood
  • Norwegian Bokmål: valnøtt-tre — wood
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: valnøtt — wood
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: valnòttre — wood
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: valnøttre — wood
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: valnøtt-tre — wood
  • Polish: orzech — wood
  • Portuguese: nogueira — wood
  • Romanian: nuc — wood
  • Russian: оре́х (oréx) — wood
  • Serbo-Croatian: орах — wood
  • Serbo-Croatian: òrah — wood
  • Serbo-Croatian: òrahovina — wood
  • Spanish: nogal — wood
  • Swedish: valnötsträ — wood
  • Swedish: valnöt — wood
  • Tibetan: སྟར་ཤིང — wood
  • Tibetan: སྟར་ཁའི་ཤིང — wood
  • Ukrainian: горі́х (horíx) — wood
  • Walloon: djaeyî — wood
  • Walloon: gaeyî — wood
  • Welsh: pren collen Ffrengig — wood
  • Welsh: coed collen Ffrengig — wood
  • Bulgarian: орех (oreh) — colour
  • German: dunkelbraune Farbe — colour
  • Greek: καρυδί (karydí) — colour
  • Hungarian: diófaszín — colour
  • Japanese: くるみ色 (kurumiiro) — colour
  • Manx: daah galchro — colour
  • Persian: گردویی — colour
  • Polish: orzech — colour
  • Romanian: nuciu — colour
  • Walloon: nwè — colour
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