Definitions for scapes

scapes scape

Spelling: [skeyp]
IPA: /skeɪp/

Scapes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in scapes (acepss).

Definitions for scapes

noun

  1. Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
  2. Zoology. a stemlike part, as the shaft of a feather.
  3. Architecture. the shaft of a column.
  4. Entomology. the stemlike basal segment of the antenna of certain insects.

noun, verb (used with or without object)

  1. escape.

Origin of scapes

1595-1605; Latin scāpus stalk Doric Greek skâpos, akin to Attic skêptron staff, scepter

Examples for scapes

Unlike the kneelers, they do not bow and scape to any man, not even the King-Beyond-the-Wall.

There'll be a kerridge for you; and whatever you want, you just 'scape out and we'll 'tend to it.

Much better: Use every man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping?

The Cavalier is disguised in the garb of a forester, as you see, but he could not 'scape us.

Thou know'st I can scape now, that's all I look for: I'll leave.

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

If he scape this age, he has scaped a tempest, and may live to be a man.

They are escapism embodied, a dreamland, a scape of fantasy, the vale of telenovellas.

Certainly we have such kings, but all of them 'scape whipping and hanging.

Then they thrust wide the gate to make their scape with speed.

Word Value for scapes
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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