Dictionary Entry
umpire
umpire is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 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 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to See that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed.
- 2noun
A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement.
- 3transitive verb
To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute.
- 4transitive verb
To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game.
- 5intransitive verb
To act as umpire or arbitrator.
- 6noun
someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
"the critic was considered to be an arbiter of modern literature"
"the arbitrator's authority derived from the consent of the disputants"
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- 7noun
an official at a baseball game
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- 8verb
be a referee or umpire in a sports competition
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