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chestnut

chestnut

4 2.9
A deep reddish-brown color like the shell of the brown nut you can eat
  • noun
  • /ˈʧɛstnʌt/
translation icon : castaño
  • The café's chestnut red walls and light blue tables gave its interior a bright, welcoming air.
  • chestnut red

If the baby's skin colour is darker than chestnut, it will simply not do.

Examples

  • The seats were brown like chestnuts and had small wrinkles that sighed when you sat on them.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Here, works hung in two or three rows on draped walls of warm chestnut red.

    Academic text (1991)
  • I'm going to use hot chestnut for that nice cool dark brown.

  • Did he have wavy hair and chestnut eyes?

  • This is the perfect blush in the shade chestnut, which looks beautiful as well.

  • Her eyes are huge, the color of chestnuts, bristling with urgency.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Muffin had chestnut hair that looked like burnished bronze after a brushing.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Esther, my mother's plump, chestnut-complected maid, opened the front door.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The artist chose a rich chestnut color for the wooden furniture, giving it a warm and inviting look.

  • Her hair was styled in soft waves that shimmered with a beautiful chestnut hue under the sunlight.

Synonyms

chocolate
vschestnut
31 1.0

A medium dark brown color like cocoa beans

is redder showing clear reddish tones rather than plain brown
caramel
vschestnut
6 2.3

A medium to dark tan color like brown sugar

is redder and less tan showing a true reddish brown
mahogany
vschestnut
3 4.4

A deep reddish-brown color like wood from a tropical tree

is the same deep reddish brown tied to a tree nut
sweet chestnut
vschestnut
  • UK
3.7

A warm reddish brown colour like a nut

is consistently a deeper reddish brown not the medium tones
liver chestnut
vschestnut
  • Specialized
8.1

A horse coat that is a solid dark reddish brown

is a general deep reddish brown not limited to animal coats
caramel brown
vschestnut
2.6

A medium to dark brown color like caramel

is redder and deeper than that sweeter golden brown

Compounds

old chestnut
  • Informal
4 7.9

A story or joke people tell so often that it becomes boring

A large tree that makes nuts you can eat in prickly cases and has leaves that turn brown in autumn

A plant that grows in water with a crunchy edible part used in Asian cooking

A brown color with a little red that often appears in hair or feathers

A warm reddish brown like the coat of some horses

chestnut blight
  • Specialized
1 7.6

A fungus that makes open sores on American chestnut trees and often kills them

A large eastern North American tree that makes edible nuts and strong wood

chestnut canker
  • Specialized
9.1

A disease that attacks chestnut trees, making sores on the bark and often killing the tree

7.4

A North American oak tree with leaves like a chestnut and dark, deeply ridged bark

chestnut-bark disease
  • Specialized
7.4

A disease that kills American chestnut trees by making deep wounds in their bark

A tree from China and Korea that makes small sweet nuts you can eat

A water plant with small crunchy bulbs eaten in Chinese cooking

A chestnut heated until soft and ready to eat

A small bushy tree from the southeastern United States that makes small edible nuts

A large tree from eastern North America that makes sweet edible nuts and useful wood

Australian chestnut
  • Australian
9.3

A tall Australian tree with orange-yellow flowers and large pods that contain edible seeds like chestnuts

A large tree that loses its leaves and produces sweet edible nuts and useful wood

liver chestnut
  • Specialized
8.1

A horse coat that is a solid dark reddish brown

9.9

An Australian tree with divided leaves, orange flowers, large pods, and dark strong wood

A cream made from horse chestnut that eases muscle and joint pain

A cream made from horse chestnut that reduces muscle and joint pain

A large tree with hand-shaped leaves and showy flowers that make shiny brown seeds you cannot eat

A glossy brown seed in a spiky green husk that you cannot eat

horse-chestnut family
  • Specialized
8.7

A group of trees like horse-chestnuts with large flowers and glossy inedible seeds in hard cases

A tree from Japan that loses its leaves and produces edible nuts

oak chestnut
  • Indian
8.6

A tree from Asia with strong wood and edible nuts

rose chestnut
  • Indian
9.9

A large evergreen tree from India with white sweet-smelling flowers and very hard wood used for building

A large tree that loses its leaves and makes nuts you can eat and good wood

A warm reddish brown colour like a nut

swamp chestnut oak
  • Specialized
6.6

A medium to large tree with big leaves that grows in wet areas of the southeastern United States

A large tree that has sweet edible nuts and gives shade

water chestnut plant
  • Specialized
5.6

A water plant with spiky four-part nuts that people eat

A medium-sized tree from the eastern United States with strong, durable wood

How Reddish

maroon
18 3.6
auburn
64 3.9
chestnut
4 2.9
brown
939 1.0
tan
40 1.0

Surface Forms

chestnut singular
chestnuts plural

Etymology

Chestnut as a color comes from the warm brown of the nut, so calling hair or paint chestnut means it has the same deep reddish-brown as the chestnut.