crescent
crescent is a 8-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.
- noun. Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
- noun. A representation of the increasing moon, often used as an emblem or badge
- noun. A symbol of Artemis, or Diana.
- noun. The ancient symbol of Byzantium or Constantinople.
- noun. The emblem of the Turkish Empire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople.
- noun. Any one of three orders of knighthood; the first instituted by Charles I., king of Naples and Sicily, in 1268; the second by Rene of Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
- noun. The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
- adjective. Shaped like a crescent.
- adjective. Increasing; growing.
- transitive verb. To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.
- transitive verb. To adorn with crescents.
- noun. any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters
- adjective. resembling the new moon in shape
Synonyms
Common word forms
crescents, crescented, crescenting
Words from these letters
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