hortense

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 11
Words With Friends: 11
Letters: 8

Pronunciation

/ˈhɔː(ɹ)tɛns/

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/ˈhɔː(ɹ)tɛns/ · /hɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛns/ · /(h)ɔː(ɹ)tɑ̃s/

Definition of hortense

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

A female given name from French.

“Her name was Mabel Hortense, and the children were very proud of having a cousin who lived in the city and was named Mabel Hortense. At Damsonfield Four Corners, where they lived, all the little girls were name Mary Jane or Sarah Ann or Lucy Maria, or, at the best, Hattie and Carrie; they had scarcely even heard so fine a name as Mabel Hortense.”

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name

A female given name from French.

“Her name was Mabel Hortense, and the children were very proud of having a cousin who lived in the city and was named Mabel Hortense. At Damsonfield Four Corners, where they lived, all the little girls were name Mary Jane or Sarah Ann or Lucy Maria, or, at the best, Hattie and Carrie; they had scarcely even heard so fine a name as Mabel Hortense.”
An unincorporated community in Brantley County, Georgia, United States.

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Etymology

From the French form of the Latin Hortēnsia, feminine form of Hortēnsius (“name of a Roman gens”), probably derived from hortēnsis (“having to do with gardens”) on the basis that the first to bear the name was a gardener.

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