Definitions for banshee

banshee ban·shee

Spelling: [ban-shee, ban-shee]
IPA: /ˈbæn ʃi, bænˈʃi/

Banshee is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in banshee (abeehns).

Definitions for banshee

noun

  1. (in Irish folklore) a spirit in the form of a wailing woman who appears to or is heard by members of a family as a sign that one of them is about to die.

Origin of banshee

1765-75; Irish bean sīdhe woman of a fairy mound; see sídh

Examples for banshee

If the banshee, then, is anxious to fulfil its mission it must follow us.

It is always the banshee has followed the Sionnacs and cried them.

When the sheriff-to-be is killed, the man assumes his identity, Lucas Hood, and becomes the new Sheriff of banshee.

The banshee corked the bottle and held it up proudly to the light.

Presently he heard the long-drawn, quavering, banshee wail of a locomotive.

But that was the last act of destruction that the banshee was destined to accomplish.

Yes, it surely must be the banshee, and what does it forebode?

The first season of banshee, meanwhile, was completely outrageous (in a good way).

I thought it might be a banshee, if thair is that crayther in this counthry.

He marched his men up, with the thin wailing of a banshee in his ears.

Word Value for banshee
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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