altern
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
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- 6
Definition of altern
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable, obsolete)Acting by turns; alternate.
“And God made two great lights, great for thir use / To Man, the greater to have rule by day, / The less by night, alterne ; and made the stars, / And set them in the firmament of Heaven / To illuminate the Earth, and rule the day / In their vicissitude, and rule the night, / And light from darkness to divide. […]”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin alternus (“every other, alternate”).
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