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acorn
[ ey-kawrn, ey-kern ]
noun
- the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
- a finial or knop, as on a piece of furniture, in the form of an acorn.
acorn
/ ˈeɪkɔːn /
noun
- the fruit of an oak tree, consisting of a smooth thick-walled nut in a woody scaly cuplike base
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Example Sentences
Perhaps nowhere has an ACORN spin-off been as successful as one has in New York City.
Action Now recently helped elect Toni Foulkes, a former Chicago ACORN leader, to the Chicago City Council.
ACORN was able to do a lot of things for low-income people, but they were stopped.
But my favorite story linked—inevitably—the navigator program to ACORN.
These were the adopted symbols of the Vanderbilts, as “from an acorn a mighty oak shall grow.”
Every few days after that the boy took Squinty out of his pen, and let him do the rope-jumping and the acorn-hunting tricks.
The two animal friends soon came to where some of the acorn nuts had fallen off a tree, and they ate as many as they wanted.
It was then more than this only in the same sense as the egg, new-laid, is the full-grown fowl, or the acorn the oak.
When I went into this kitchen, there was a cake baking, with an ornament on the top that looked quite like an acorn.
All powers lie hidden within us as the oak tree lies hidden in the acorn.
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