dennis
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/ˈdɛnɪs/
(UK)
Definition of dennis
12 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
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A male given name from Ancient Greek.
“I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!”
“Each disliked the choice of the other. "Charles is a stern name," she affirmed. "Nonsense," said Philip. "It's as agreeable a name as there is. Dennis sounds like a comical Irish story." "You just show your bad feeling when you say such a thing," she retorted. "'T is a grand name!"”
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name
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A male given name from Ancient Greek.
“I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!”
“Each disliked the choice of the other. "Charles is a stern name," she affirmed. "Nonsense," said Philip. "It's as agreeable a name as there is. Dennis sounds like a comical Irish story." "You just show your bad feeling when you say such a thing," she retorted. "'T is a grand name!"”
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- A locality in Cypress County, Alberta, Canada.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English Denis, from Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius, a masculine name literally meaning “follower of (the wine god) Dionysus”.
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