Definitions for confers

confers con·fer

Spelling: [kuh n-fur]
IPA: /kənˈfɜr/

Confers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in confers (cefnors).

Definitions for confers

verb (used with object)

  1. to bestow upon as a gift, favor, honor, etc.:
  2. Obsolete. to compare.

verb (used without object)

  1. to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation.

Origin of confers

1400-50 for earlier sense “to summon”; 1520-30 for current senses; late Middle English conferen Latin conferre to bring together, compare, consult with, equivalent to con-

Examples for confers

In the play as in history, Charles now confers upon Wentworth an Earldom.

This knowledge is a supernatural gift, which (in the Poimandres) confers ‘deification’.

It confers also a benefit similar to that which is derived from a course of arithmetic.

Nevertheless, his idealistic request for wife and mistress to be present confers symbolic legitimacy on both.

But it is an unusual right: one which confers not entitlement benefits or other government-granted goodies, but responsibilities.

But still it confers some advantages over the newer, flashier techniques that have come to dominate over the last two decades.

This it is that "gives him immortality," and confers upon him the dignity of manhood.

Clearly, money—having it, what it confers, what it means—is different when you have lots of it.

I know the happiness it confers upon you to be able to do what you have done.

It confers protection under the law to those who have lacked it.

Word Value for confers
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

Similar words for confers
Word of the day