Geanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɡiːn/
• 韻: -iːn

名詞

gean (複数形 geans)

1. (now dialectal) A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.
   • 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

     Thus in the early year the blue pearl clusters of the grape hyacinth bloomed, and in autumn the geans rejoiced us with the red Chinese lantern gleam of their fruit.

   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 45:

     ‘Given the circumstances, Effie,’ he whispered, ‘I could blossom again like a gean-tree.’

Further reading

• Prunus avium on Wikipedia.
• “gean”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “gean”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• Agne, Ange, Egan, Gena, agen, gena, nega-

語源

A variant of ġeġn.

発音

• IPA^(key): /jæ͜ɑːn/

副詞

ġēan

1. again

接頭辞

ġēan-

1. Alternative form of geġn-