ambage
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
Definition of ambage
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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
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(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.”
- (countable, in-plural, literary, often, rhetoric, uncountable)An indirect or obscure path.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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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