Definitions for damsel

damsel dam·sel

Spelling: [dam-zuh l]
IPA: /ˈdæm zəl/

Damsel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in damsel (adelms).

Definitions for damsel

noun

  1. a young woman or girl; a maiden, originally one of gentle or noble birth.

Origin of damsel

1150-1200; Middle English damisel Anglo-French (Old French damoisele) Vulgar Latin *dominicella, equivalent to Latin domin(a) lady (see dame) + -i-

Examples for damsel

Surely, sir, you should take shame to hold the damsel against her will.

Who was the damsel I saw you making up to in the Park the other day?

In the eyes of these designers, this woman is more of a damsel than a dame.

Not only, in the rarest of cases, where there a female lead in a blockbuster action movie, but the damsel in distress was a dude.

Already I have endured more than enough in the interests of this damsel.

For example: the damsel is tied to the train tracks, the Pacific Union hurtling her way.

There may be more than one claimant for the damsel's affection.

I scrutinised him carefully, while Charlotte ran to comfort the damsel.

His face was comely as a damsel's, his eyes blue and his hair golden.

Nicole Kidman stretched as a Southern damsel in The Paperboy, but the movie was widely panned.

Word Value for damsel
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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