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Meaning of Hershey | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈhɝʃi

Definitions

  1. A surname.
  2. A confection produced by The Hershey Company.
  3. A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States, named for J. H. Hershey, a pioneer settler.
  4. Any of the company towns named for and operated by the Hershey Company.
  5. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in California, United States.
  7. A village in Mayabeque, Cuba, also known as Camilo Cienfuegos.

Equivalents

العربية هيرشي

Examples

“But she knows her friends and if she likes you she will go for walks with you and even eat a Hershey in front of the drugstore if you buy her one.”
“Then I arranged all my own and my roommate’s pillows in a voluptuous pile, placed so that I could see whether a silent housemotherly foot stood outside the swaying monk’s-cloth curtain that served as a door (to cut down our libidinous chitchat, the school board believed), and I put my hoard of Hersheys discreetly under a fold of the bedspread.”
“Like a cash register, the word candy bar rang up a Hershey in my mind. […] I saw the Hershey scored in ten squares and imagined breaking one off, pushing it to the roof of my mouth to ooze down my throat. I had been five whole days without candy.”
“I remembered a Hershey in my shirt pocket. I broke off a piece and ate it.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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