aspen

¹

[ as-puhn ]

noun

1. any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides quaking aspen or P. alba white aspen, of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.

adjective

1. of or relating to the aspen.
2. trembling or quivering, like the leaves of the aspen.

Aspen

²

[ as-puhn ]

noun

1. a town in central Colorado: ski resort.

aspen

/ ˈæspən /

noun

1. any of several trees of the salicaceous genus Populus, such as P. tremula of Europe, in which the leaves are attached to the stem by long flattened stalks so that they quiver in the wind Archaic nameasp

adjective

1. archaic.
   trembling

Word History and Origins

Origin of aspen¹

1350–1400; Middle English aspen (adj.), Old English æspen; cognate with Old Frisian espen (adj.), espenbeam, Middle Dutch espenboom, Old High German espîn (adj.). See asp ², -en ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of aspen¹

Old English æspe; see asp ²

Example Sentences

The year before that, an accident outside of Aspen, Colorado, claimed three lives, also the result of a mechanical failure.

From Outside Online

In addition to Facebook, the project’s backers include Miguel Bezos, an Aspen trustee and the father of Jeff Bezos, who donated $300,000 to it, according to BuzzFeed.

From Washington Post

Facebook funded the project with a grant of $250,000, according to BuzzFeed, and Brooks received a salary from Aspen for his work on it, though it is unclear how much.

From Washington Post

From there, head south for a drive along the scenic June Lake Loop, which is especially stunning in fall, when quaking aspen blaze bright yellow.

From Outside Online

For a decade, Fortune assembled some of tech’s smartest minds in Aspen each summer to discuss how technology is changing the world.

From Fortune

Some look at the Aspen museum and wonder whether Ban will be able to continue creating his humanitarian “virtuous” architecture.

From The Daily Beast

Even Ban functions within this system, as the Aspen museum illustrates.

From The Daily Beast

Earlier this month a brand new art museum opened in the posh mountain resort town of Aspen, Colorado.

From The Daily Beast

At a conference in Aspen I ran into some people in the TV business.

From The Daily Beast

But Chris finds a quieter kind of satisfaction in the huts that dot the Rockies around Aspen.

From The Daily Beast

Walker, trembling like an aspen, owned to having sold the claim, but denied that the dust was false.

From Project Gutenberg

And she never took her eyes off Mr. Meadows, but belied her assumed firmness by quivering like an aspen leaf.

From Project Gutenberg

At last there came a fluttered confession, which made Teola Graves shiver like an aspen leaf.

From Project Gutenberg

But, alas, the nervous shock her mother had sustained made her hand tremble like an aspen leaf.

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By the older writers the Aspen was the favourite simile for female loquacity.

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