horst

See also: Horst and hörst

English

Relationship between horst, graben and fault

Etymology

From German Horst (“heap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔːst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːst
• Homophone: horsed

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.

Antonyms

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

Translations

raised portion of Earth's surface

• Czech: hrást
• Finnish: horsti (fi)
• German: Horst (de) m, Horstscholle f
• Polish: zrąb tektoniczny m
• Portuguese: horst m
• Spanish: macizo tectónico m

Anagrams

• Stohr, trosh, hotṛs, Roths, thors, Stroh, Short, hotrs, short

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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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

Derived terms

- toponyms:

• Bezelhorst
• Binckhorst
• Brinkhorst
• Bronkhorst
• De Horst
• De Schiphorst
• Dekeshorst
• Grafhorst
• Groote Horst
• Haghorst
• Heihorst
• Hoge Linthorst
• Hoonhorst
• Horst
• Horsten
• Horsthoek
• Hulshorst
• IJhorst
• Kleine Horst
• Landhorst
• Lankhorst
• Leemhorst
• Lichtenhorst
• Matenhorst
• Meijhorst
• Mekkelhorst
• Nederhorst den Berg
• Nettelhorst
• Punthorst
• Riethorst
• Schelfhorst
• Schothorst
• Slichtenhorst
• Staphorst
• Stokhorst
• Tarthorst
• Ter Horst
• Terhorst
• Vathorst
• Venhorst
• Zielhorst
• Zweekhorst

 

French

Noun

horst m (plural horsts)

1. horst

Further reading

• “horst”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.