German

Noun

Horst m ‎(genitive Horstes or Horsts, plural Horste)

1. the nest of a bird of prey, an eyrie
2. (literary) bush; thicket; small forest
3. (short for Fliegerhorst) military airport; air force base
4. (geology) horst

Declension

Synonyms

• (geology): Horstscholle

Derived terms

• Adlerhorst
• Fliegerhorst

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Possibly related to the common noun (etymology 1). First used in an 18th-century play, taken into regular use in the 19th century, popular after 1920, now rare for a child. Compare etymology 3.

Proper noun

Horst m ‎(genitive Horsts (avoided))

1. A male given name

Etymology 3

From the name, which has come to be regarded as dated and “uncool”.

Noun

Horst m ‎(genitive Horstes (avoided), plural Horste)

1. (colloquial, youth slang) loser; nerd; idiot

   Alter, du bist so ein Horst!

   Mate, you're such an idiot!

English

Diagram showing the relationship between horst, graben and fault

Noun

horst ‎(plural horsts)

1. (geology) An area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land.
   • 1927, George Rogers Mansfield, Geography, Geology, and Mineral Resources of Part of Southeastern Idaho, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 152, page 390,

     The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts.

   • 1963, F. Geukens, S. D. Bowers (translator), Geology of the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 560-B, page B19,

     Innumerable faults, in fact, cut through the country, many bounding secondary grabens and horsts.

   • 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside, page 83:

     Your body is a horst and mine a graben, because horst is the opposite of graben.

   • 2011, James Petersen, Dorothy Sack, Robert Gabler, Physical Geography, 10th Edition, page 393,

     Horsts and grabens are rock structural features that are identified by the nature of the offset of rock units along normal faults; topographically, horsts form mountain ranges and grabens form basins.

Translations

Antonyms

• (area of earth's surface raised relative to surrounding land): graben

Anagrams

• short
• thors
• trosh

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Cognate with English horst and German Horst ‎(“horst; eyrie”).

Noun

horst f ‎(plural horsten, diminutive horstje n)

1. (geology) an area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land; a horst
2. an elevated land overgrown with shrub
3. a nest of a bird of prey; an eyrie