PANSY
What does "PANSY" mean?
A small garden flower with broad, brightly colored petals and a face-like marking.
Meanings
- A cultivated violet with large, velvety, often multicoloured flowers and a dark central blotch. She planted pansies along the path for winter colour.
Did you know?
- The cheerful pansy is named for a thought: its name comes from the French 'pensee', 'a thought', because the flower stood for remembering an absent loved one.
Word origin
From Middle French 'pensee', meaning 'thought' or 'remembrance' (from 'penser', to think), because the flower was a token of thinking of someone.
Remember it
PANSY hides 'pense' (French 'think') - the flower of thought, given to mean 'thinking of you'.
A little poem
Small velvet faces
turned up through the frost - each one
a thought left to bloom.
haiku
Wordplay
- I gave my friend a pansy and told her it came with a thought. She said that's the most I'd ever put into a gift.
What it teaches
The smallest tokens carry the largest meanings; a flower can stand in for a thought you couldn't say.
Quick facts
What does PANSY mean?
A small garden flower with broad, brightly colored petals and a face-like marking.
Is PANSY a valid word?
Yes — PANSY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PANSY?
PANSY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does PANSY come from?
From Middle French 'pensee', meaning 'thought' or 'remembrance' (from 'penser', to think), because the flower was a token of thinking of someone.
What can PANSY teach us?
The smallest tokens carry the largest meanings; a flower can stand in for a thought you couldn't say.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.