ostracism

ostracism is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage. Face value is 13 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.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
2. noun. Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
3. noun. the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
4. noun. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

   "the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"

   Synonyms: banishment, coventry

Synonyms

banishment, coventry

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ostracism:

acrotisms, castroism, socratism

Words from these letters

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