Definitions for siestas

siestas si·es·ta

Spelling: [see-es-tuh]
IPA: /siˈɛs tə/

Siestas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in siestas (aeissst).

Definitions for siestas

noun

  1. a midday or afternoon rest or nap, especially as taken in Spain and Latin America.

Origin of siestas

1645-55; Spanish Latin sexta (hōra) the sixth (hour), midday

Examples for siestas

What cry was that which startles the seraglio from its siesta?

The habits of the siesta obtained in a modified form at the rancho.

We happened to reach it when the prisoners were having a siesta.

I'm afraid to speak to the servants—they are making the siesta.

Is there no sombra where we can eat our lunch and take a siesta?

I went to keep her company by her bedside after I had taken my siesta.

I am somewhat late with my siesta on this hot day, it seems.

Most of our party slept the siesta, and at about four oʼclock we called at the Palace.

"They're going into the Saint's Pool to have a siesta," said Vere.

How can anyone go home for a three-course meal and a siesta in the midst of peak trading?

Word Value for siestas
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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