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thicket

Pronunciation: /ˈθɪkɪt/

The English word “thicket” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
  2. A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
  3. The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however. Compare typologically Bulgarian гъстак (găstak), Macedonian густеж (gustež), Czech houští, Polish gęstwina (< *gǫstъ); Latin dūmus (akin to Latin dense).

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