Definitions for Alabaster

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Alabaster al·a·bas·ter

Spelling: [al-uh-bas-ter, -bah-ster]

IPA: /ˈæl əˌbæs tər, -ˌbɑ stər/

Alabaster is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 435 anagrams from letters in Alabaster (aaabelrst).

Definitions for Alabaster

noun

1. a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
2. Also called Oriental alabaster. a variety of calcite, often banded, used or sold as alabaster.

adjective

1. made of alabaster:
2. resembling alabaster; smooth and white:

Origin of Alabaster

1350-1400; Latin Greek alábastros; replacing Middle English alabastre Middle French Latin

Examples for Alabaster

At one end there will be sure to be the image of the teacher, wrought in alabaster.

A lovely figure, as white and almost as clear as alabaster, was lying on the bed.

Come and wash in the fountains that fall into the basins of crystal and alabaster.

I should be in the alabaster Hall, waiting till Charmion came forth.

The head of the magistrate was half hidden by the paper, his brow was like alabaster.

At the head stood an alabaster vase (X, 31) of a late Neolithic shape.

Tancred rushed to her side; she was quite insensible, and pale as alabaster.

If by any accident, marble or alabaster happen to be broken, it may be strongly cemented together in the following manner.

I have a little heathen god—Gautama; alabaster—and a mummied cat.

Dost forget how nigh thou wast to death there in the alabaster Hall?