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whilom

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Is whilom a Scrabble word?

Yes, whilom is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 14 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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What is the meaning of whilom?

Definition

adv (English)

1. (archaic except literary) At some time in the past; formerly, once upon a time.Examples: "Lo I the man, vvhoſe Muſe vvhilome did maske, / As time her taught, in lowly Sheapards vveeds, / Am novv enforſt a far unfitter taske, […]"; "VVith ſuch an invention [a sumptuary law] did Zelevcus vvhilome correct the corrupted maners of the Locrines."; "In Northern Clime a valorous Knight / Did whilom kill his Bear in fight, / And wound a Fidler: we have both / Of these the objects of our Wroth / And equal Fame and Glory from / Th' Attempt or Victory to come."Synonyms: afore, aforehand, already, antecedently, at one time, before, beforehand, beforetimenot-comparable

2. (obsolete)Examples: "Wald ze be lov'd, this lessone mon ze leir; / Flie vhylome Love, and it will folou thee."Synonyms: at times, ever and anon, every once in a while, every now and then, every so often, from time to time, intermittently, irregularlynot-comparableobsolete

3. (obsolete)Examples: "This money I do give ye, becauſe of vvhilom / You have bin thought my ſonne, and by myſelfe too, […]"not-comparableobsoleterare

adj (English)

1. (archaic except literary) At some time in the past; former, sometime.Examples: "On the same day, two notable Female Prisoners are also put in ward there: Dame Dubarry and Josephine Beauharnais! Dame whilom Countess Dubarry, Unfortunate-female, had returned from London; they snatched her, not only as Ex-harlot of a whilom Majesty, and therefore suspect; but as having 'furnished the Emigrants with money.'"; "The play must have appeared during the closing years of the Peloponnesian war, and must have been fresh in men's memory, when, as Plutarch tells us (Life of Lysander, c. 15), the deliberations about the fate of conquered Athens were determined by a Phocian actor singing the opening monody, which moved all to pity by its picture of a whilom princess reduced to miserable poverty."; "[S]he was expecting to be joined there by no such pale fellow-adventurer as her whilom uncle."Synonyms: erstwhile, quondam, antecedent, anterior, earlier, erstwhile, ex, foregonenot-comparable

2. (obsolete) Of a person: deceased, late.Synonyms: asleep, at rest, cadaverous, clay-cold, deceased, resting, decomposed, defunctnot-comparableobsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

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

How many Scrabble points is the word "whilom"?

Scrabble
14 points
W4
H4
I1
L1
O1
M3
Words With Friends
15 points
W4
H3
I1
L2
O1
M4

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