Definitions for gazelle

gazelle ga·zelle

Spelling: [guh-zel]
IPA: /gəˈzɛl/

Gazelle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in gazelle (aeegllz).

Definitions for gazelle

noun

  1. any small antelope of the genus Gazella and allied genera, of Africa and Asia, noted for graceful movements and lustrous eyes.

Origin of gazelle

1575-85; French; Old French gazel Arabic ghazāla

Examples for gazelle

He answered that he would; and whilst we were waiting, behold, a gazelle got into the net.

"God be praised in the gazelle of the desert," said Palemon.

Then south-eastwards to Teereh; near which we started a gazelle across the fields.

Honain, Honain, the gazelle has broken her chain, and is eating my roses.'

The gazelle was at my side again, and I bought her a third beer.

Then, from my left, a tall, beautiful girl, graceful as a gazelle in skintight jeans and high heels, slinked over to me.

The “lines and anchors” were, Posh thinks, lost from his old punt the gazelle.

Her beauty was magnificently evil; she had the grace of a gazelle and the eyes of a sorceress.

At times Ea was regarded as a gazelle rather than as an antelope.

She glided over the tile floor like a gazelle and had a face that Amedeo Modigliani would have died for.

Word Value for gazelle
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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