Definitions for item

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item i·tem

Spelling: [noun, verb ahy-tuh m; adverb Item is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in item (eimt).

Definitions for item

noun

1. a separate article or particular:
2. a separate piece of information or news, as a short piece in a newspaper or broadcast.
3. Slang. something suitable for a news paragraph or as a topic of gossip, especially something that is sensational or scandalous:
4. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter I.
5. an admonition or warning.
6. Older Use. an intimation or hint.

adverb

1. also; likewise (used especially to introduce each article or statement in a list or series).

verb (used with object)

1. to set down or enter as an item, or by or in items.
2. to make a note of.

Origin of item

1350-1400; Middle English: likewise (adv.), the same (noun) Latin: likewise

Examples for item

The item on federal prisoners was disturbing in a different way.

This item is beyond poor taste and trivializes a loss of life that still hurts the Kent State community today.

He had two carts laden with luggage—one item, a green parrot in a cage.

I thanked him for the item, resolving to add it to my list of curious Americanisms.

Tall Clemence made a dirty remark about every item that she touched.

“They are very friendly and curious,” The Evening Independent wrote in 1979 in an item emphasizing their popularity and cuteness.

There is no blood on this shirt nor has this item been altered in any way.

item, the clyster repeated in the evening, as above, thirty sous.

He could surmise one item in keeping with young women of Somali heritage.

And I did not feel it essential to my regard for him to know every item of his past.