sermon

sermon is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
2. noun. Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
3. noun. Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
4. intransitive verb. To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
5. transitive verb. To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
6. transitive verb. To tutor; to lecture.
7. noun. a moralistic rebuke

   "your preaching is wasted on him"

   Synonyms: preaching

8. noun. an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)

   Synonyms: discourse, preaching

Synonyms

preaching, discourse

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sermon:

somner

Common word forms

sermons, sermoner, sermoning, sermonise, sermonize, sermonless

Words from these letters

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