Definitions for airts

airts airt

Spelling: [airt; Scot. eyrt]
IPA: /ɛərt; Scot. eɪrt/

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

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in airts (airst).

Definitions for airts

noun

  1. a direction.

verb (used with object)

  1. to point out the way; direct; guide.

Origin of airts

1400-50; late Middle English (Scots) a(i)rt Scots Gaelic àird point, quarter of the compass; cognate with Greek árdis arrowhead. The borrowing of Scots airt from Scots Gaelic àird is exact si

Examples for airts

And he waved his hands to the four airts of heaven, and called us to hearken to the hills shaking themselves to pieces.

These verses were written as a continuation to Burns's "Of a' the airts the wind can blaw."

It was during the honeymoon, as he calls it, that he wrote the beautiful "O a' the airts the wind can blaw."

Anywhere—nowhere—everywhere; to 'all the airts the wind can blaw.'

As the winds were coloured like the airts from which they blew, it was believed that they could be influenced by coloured objects.

These two stanzas were written as a continuation of Burns's popular song, "Of a' the airts the wind can blaw."

Ere the morning light, the war-arrow was split into four splinters, and carried out to the four airts, through all Kesteven.

Our bedrooms are dismal dens, open to "a' the airts the wind can blaw," half furnished, and not by any means half clean.

Word Value for airts
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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