Definitions for sizars

sizars siz·ar

Spelling: [sahy-zer]
IPA: /ˈsaɪ zər/

Sizars is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in sizars (airssz).

Definitions for sizars

noun

  1. (at Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.

Origin of sizars

First recorded in 1580-90; size1 + -ar3

Examples for sizars

His wife was dead; his only son, who had been a sizar at Cambridge, was a curate in London.

The two incidents that we have narrated made Julian fear that his position as a sizar would be one of continual annoyance.

In a month he had passed his first examinations and was made a sizar.

He was the son of a barber, but was well educated, and was able to enter Caius College as a sizar at thirteen.

From Liverpool he went on to Cambridge to offer himself as a sizar at the University.

In 1705 he entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; in 1711 he was elected fellow of his college and was ordained.

Young Aubrey was sent to school, and thence to college as a sizar: he obtained several prizes, and took a high degree.

Let me see; the next time I heard of him was when he attempted to enter college as a sizar, and failed.

He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book.

A sizar was definitely attached to a Fellow or Fellow Commoner; he was not exactly a servant, but made himself generally useful.

Word Value for sizars
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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