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cormorant

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Is cormorant a Scrabble word?

Yes, cormorant is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 13 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of cormorant?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (figuratively, also attributively, archaic) A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.Examples: "In lyke maner who will nat haue in extreme detestation the insatiable gloteny of Vitellius, Fabius Gurges, Apicius, and dyuers other, to whiche carmorantes, neither lande, water, ne ayre, mought be sufficient."; "VVith eagre feeding foode doth choke the feeder, / Light vanitie inſatiate cormorant, / Conſuming meanes ſoone praies vpon it ſelfe: […]"; "Let Fame, that all hunt after in their lyues, / Liue regiſtred vpon our brazen Tombes, / And then grace vs, in the diſgrace of death: / VVhen ſpight of cormorant deuouring Time, / Th[']endeavour of this preſent breath may buy: / That honour vvhich ſhall bate his ſythes keene edge, / And make vs heires of all eternitie."Synonyms: glutton, belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, epicure, gannet, glutton, gorgeralsoarchaicattributivefiguratively

adj (English)

1. (archaic) Voracious; aggressively greedy.Examples: "Anti-masonry is as cormorant as death, and will not be satisfied though one half the human race be immolated to appease its infernal appetite."; "... the victims of fanaticism who frequent Exeter Hall, to be plucked by tax gatherers more cormorant than your own excise-men at home?"archaic

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "cormorant"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "cormorant"?

Scrabble
13 points
C3
O1
R1
M3
O1
R1
A1
N1
T1
Words With Friends
16 points
C4
O1
R1
M4
O1
R1
A1
N2
T1

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