Definitions for tapas

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tapas ta·pas

Spelling: [tuhp-uh s]

IPA: /ˈtʌp əs/

Tapas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in tapas (aapst).

Definitions for tapas

noun

1. the conditioning of the body through the proper kinds and amounts of diet, rest, bodily training, meditation, etc., to bring it to the greatest possible state of creative power.
2. (especially in Spain) a snack or appetizer, typically served with wine or beer.
3. the bark of the paper mulberry.
4. Also called tapa cloth. a cloth of the Pacific islands made by pounding this or similar barks flat and thin, used for clothing and floor covering.

Origin of tapas

1930-35; Sanskrit: penance, literally, heat

Examples for tapas

Along with describing his farm-fresh ingredients and “figs at the peak of their ripeness” on his track “tapas.”

This was the way of tapas, or self-inflicted bodily pain and austerity.

Doug Tiller (the original Morning Glory, Mercury Espresso) is behind the 40-seat tapas lounge.

Ere long he returned with tapas, the sun god having declared that Varanasi would be a worthy husband for his daughter.

She and her father once owned a successful Spanish tapas restaurant in central Athens, but it went bankrupt in 2010.

Bodily asceticism of this kind is known to the Vedas under the name of tapas.

The clouds are her tapas in the sky, on which she places stones to hold them down.

tapas at the Cafe de Paris are apt to be potato salad, a few anchovies, olives, and possibly some cheese.

tapas, the epitome of Spanish culinary sophistication, is the way to go.

Not all tapas need to be served warm, and Tortilla Española is proof.