Hawthorne

Prickly flowering bush

Hawthorne is a surname, most associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne, the nineteenth-century American novelist who wrote *The Scarlet Letter* and *The House of the Seven Gables*.

Several U.S. cities bear the name, including Hawthorne, California. (Lowercase hawthorn is a thorny shrub.)

literary

Nathaniel

Classic male given name

Puritan · Salem · romance · allegory · symbolism · transcendentalist · sin · guilt · Hester Prynne · Melville

botanical

shrub

Small woody plant

whitethorn · mayflower · haws · blossom · rosaceae · hedgerow · flowering · medicinal · jelly · wildlife

placename

California

West coast megastate

district · street · Florida · New Jersey · Nevada · suburb · avenue · city · township · studies

surname

family

Related people together

English · lineage · origin · spelling · variation · judge · witch trials · descendants · namesake

Categories
Opposites
philosophical worldview in literature

HawthorneEmerson

Anglo surname, various namesakes

Thoreau · Whitman · Transcendentalism · optimism · innocence

literary moral vision

HawthorneWalt Whitman

Emerson · Thoreau · Mark Twain · Oscar Wilde · Henry Miller

Phrases
Family

hawthorn

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G