Definitions for lis

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lis li

Spelling: [lee]

IPA: /li/

Lis is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in lis (ils).

Definitions for lis

noun

1. the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
2. a Chinese unit of distance, equivalent to about one-third of a mile (0.5 km).
3. (in Chinese ethical philosophy) the etiquette traditionally prescribed for individuals or groups of people in a given situation.
4. a member of an aboriginal people of the island of Hainan in Southeastern China.
5. the Kadai language of the Li.

Origin of lis

alteration of la¹

Examples for lis

Is replevin any relation, say a second cousin, to lis pendis?

Then he went a few steps further to the house of the lis; and there went in.

E' lis—a district and a city in the northwestern part of the Peloponnesus.

On its sides, and within 100 lis distance there is no dwelling.

lis reputation, like all success, is due partly to accident.

This is but lis de nomine, a controversy about the name and not the thing.

Arbiter (7:4) and lis (23:10) are not much more common in Ovid than in the other poets.

"We're just looking on an' lis'ning," answered the boys meekly.

You can scarcely ever see him, but you often hear him croaking 100 lis round.

He'll make a fine man, a fine man if you don't spoil him, 'lis'beth.