Hershey

H4E1R1S1H4E1Y4
US/ˈhɝʃi/

proper noun

A surname.

Less commonScrabble 16

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States, named for J. H. Hershey, a pioneer settler.
  2. Any of the company towns named for and operated by the Hershey Company.
    1. A village in Mayabeque, Cuba, also known as Camilo Cienfuegos.
nounHershey (plural Hersheys)

plural Hersheys

  1. A confection produced by The Hershey Company.

    I remembered a Hershey in my shirt pocket. I broke off a piece and ate it.

    1989, Steve Abbott, “The Monastery”, in Holy Terror, Freedom, Calif.: The Crossing Press, →ISBN, section 4, page 46
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    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.

    1963, Elliott Chaze, “Millionaires Don’t Go Out in the Yard”, in Two Roofs and a Snake on the Door, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Collier-Macmillan Limited, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10

    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.

    1982, M[ary] F[rances] K[ennedy] Fisher, “Young Hunger”, in As They Were, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 35

    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.

    1988, Rebecca Busselle, “No Way Out”, in Bathing Ugly (A Richard Jackson Book), New York, N.Y.: Orchard Books, →ISBN, page 51

Origin

From Hercé in Normandy. The villages are named after The Hershey Company, which is named after its founder, Milton S. Hershey.

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APA

Hershey. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hershey

MLA

“Hershey.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hershey. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hershey,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hershey.

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