HOW TO PRONOUNCE
aspen
/ˈæspən/
Press play to hear how to pronounce aspen.
American Pronunciation Guide · 0:39
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does aspen mean?
adjective
- Pertaining to the aspen tree.
noun
- A poplar tree, especially of section Populus sect. Populus, of medium-size trees with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color.
- The wood of such a tree; usually pale, lightweight and soft.
More meanings (7)
proper noun
- A ski-resort town, the county seat of Pitkin County, Colorado.
- A small community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia.
- A female given name from English of modern usage, denominated for the aspen tree.
- A surname.
adjective
- (obsolete) Tremulous, trembling.
- (obsolete) Resembling an asp in some way
- (obsolete) wagging, gossiping.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˈæspən/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
She was graceful, but there was a quiver in the very shape of her that was like the lines of an aspen.
A considerable portion of the south side of the mountain is planted with a species of aspen, called “quaking asp” by the wood-choppers.
More book examples (3)
The house was quickly cleared of every soul except Johnson and his lieutenant, one Lunda, who both trembled like aspen leaves, expecting a severe drubbing.
Behind me, far below, the stream wound like a silver ribbon, fringed with dark conifers and the changing, dying foliage of poplar and quaking aspen.
When he again lifted the lid off Lucy’s coffin we all looked--Arthur trembling like an aspen--and saw that the body lay there in all its death-beauty.