ambage

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈæmbɪd͡ʒ/

Definition of ambage

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, in-plural, literary, often, rhetoric, uncountable)Evasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution.
    “Puttenham, Art of Poesie without any long studie or tedious ambage”
    “Umh! y' are full of ambage.”
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noun

  1. (countable, in-plural, literary, often, rhetoric, uncountable)Evasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution.
    “Puttenham, Art of Poesie without any long studie or tedious ambage”
    “Umh! y' are full of ambage.”
  2. (countable, in-plural, literary, often, rhetoric, uncountable)An indirect or obscure path.

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ambages, from French ambage as well as its etymon Latin ambāgēs (“a roundabout or circuitous path”).

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