Definitions for erewhile

erewhile ere·while

Spelling: [air-hwahyl, -wahyl]
IPA: /ɛərˈʰwaɪl, -ˈwaɪl/

Erewhile is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in erewhile (eeehilrw).

Definitions for erewhile

adverb

  1. a while before; formerly.

Origin of erewhile

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at ere, while

Examples for erewhile

It had been excavated by the washing of the stream, erewhile rapid, but now dried up.

He, for his part, was well pleased to find in the young knight the companionship he had erewhile had in the pueri.

What, for example, be these mikerots she was illuding to erewhile?

Yet she might about as well have stayed where she was, for the erewhile great whirling gold town was now as a city of the dead.

The romance-lore, both oral and written, which erewhile delighted the cottager, is growing out of date.

Fate had fallen on his house, had marked it for destruction as erewhile that of Tantalus.

In that you say not truth; for you erewhile have so misused my knight, that he may chance to die.

In the centre of the erewhile camp they found the man they sought.

For betwixt the oak-tree and the thorn Meseemeth erewhile was I born.

Therefor he gave me the falcon on my hand which had erewhile been my lover's gift.

Word Value for erewhile
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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