decuman
Valid in Scrabble
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- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
/ˈdɛkjʊmən/
Definition of decuman
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable, obsolete)Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
“decuman billows”
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adj
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(not-comparable, obsolete)Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
“decuman billows”
- (historical, not-comparable)Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed.
noun
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(obsolete)An extraordinarily large billow.
“Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).
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- ACED 7 pts
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- DAME 7 pts
- DAMN 7 pts
- DUCE 7 pts
- DUMA 7 pts
- MADE 7 pts
- MAUD 7 pts
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- ACNE 6 pts
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- CANE 6 pts
- MANE 6 pts
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- MENU 6 pts
- NAME 6 pts
- NEMA 6 pts
- NEUM 6 pts
- DEAN 5 pts
- DUNE 5 pts
- NUDE 5 pts
- UNDE 5 pts
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