Definitions for potations

potations po·ta·tion

Spelling: [poh-tey-shuh n]
IPA: /poʊˈteɪ ʃən/

Potations is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 369 anagrams from letters in potations (ainoopstt).

Definitions for potations

noun

  1. the act of drinking.
  2. a drink or draft, especially of an alcoholic beverage.

Origin of potations

1400-50; late Middle English potacion Latin pōtātiōn- (stem of pōtātiō) a drinking, equivalent to pōtāt(us) (past participle of pōtāre to drink) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for potations

Many of the company were furnished with pipes, and most of them with some kind of evening potation.

"Try a glass of brandy," said Cutts, and he administered the potation.

If the affair end here, well and good; but we will suppose that the potation goes on, and very speedily a new effect is produced.

Mrs. S. had a pimpled face, which I believe arose from potation of ale.

Mr Riderhood got out his bottle, and fetched his jug-full of water, and administered a potation.

But I suspect the water forms the best part of the potation.

Let it not be supposed that there was any deficiency in the very necessary articks of potation on this auspicious day: no!

Make the potation stronger with brandy as the night wears on.

"The influenza is stronger," replied Mrs. Portheris oracularly, and finished her second potation.

Taking a hair of the dog that bit you was, however, a maxim with Salernitans for the cure of potation headaches.

Word Value for potations
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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