Definitions for curios

curios cu·ri·o

Spelling: [kyoo r-ee-oh]
IPA: /ˈkyʊər iˌoʊ/

Curios is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in curios (ciorsu).

Definitions for curios

noun

  1. any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.

Origin of curios

First recorded in 1850-55; shortened from curiosity

Examples for curios

He spoke exactly as if he had been a collector who had been roaming the world for curios.

Thou knowest, also, amigo Rafael, that I have been a gatherer of curios.

These baskets have the air of a collection of curios behind the glass.

I am going at last to see my mother, to recover my curios, my books!

I am a collector of Eastern curios, but there is one thing I have never been able to obtain.'

Antiquity itself is only a recommendation if we are collectors of curios.

"Clothes and curios from foreign parts," said the witness coolly.

Well, sir, when you blow in there you'll see a roomful of curios.

The curios were very fond of Von Barwig, and he took quite an interest in them.

Quoth Thomas scornfully, "curios be blowed, put 'em in the beggars!"

Word Value for curios
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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