witan
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
/ˈwɪtən/
Definition of witan
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot.
“But in estimating the powers of the witan, we must not lose sight of the fact, that the king sometimes assumes a tone of superiority scarcely consistent with its independence.”
“The folkland, the national fund, was administered and conveyed conjointly by the king and the witan.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old English witan, plural of wita (“wise man”).
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