gean

[ geen ]

noun

1. heart cherry.

gean

/ ɡiːn /

noun

1. Also calledwild cherry a white-flowered rosaceous tree, Prunus avium, of Europe, W Asia, and N Africa, the ancestor of the cultivated sweet cherries
2. See sweet cherry
   See sweet cherry

Word History and Origins

Origin of gean¹

First recorded in 1525–35, gean is from the Middle French word guigne, of uncertain origin

Word History and Origins

Origin of gean¹

C16: from Old French guine

Example Sentences

The naiads bathed not in Scamanders stream nor Simois, nor the nereids in the waters of the bright gean Sea.

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Grey islets with foam flying over them lay around indistinctly seen through the driving vapour from the gean.

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Never again does Athens sit there as a queen looking out upon her gean, but her day of political glory is ended forever.

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Whether their hearts were turned Troy-ward in the gean or to some small unsung British tre or Troynovant, who can tell?

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He obligingly chained the island to the bottom of the gean Sea, and Latona had no further cause for complaint.

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