Definitions for Alastor

Alastor a·las·tor

Spelling: [uh-las-ter, ‐tawr]
IPA: /əˈlæs tər, ‐tɔr/

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

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in Alastor (aalorst).

Definitions for Alastor

noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letter) an avenging spirit or deity frequently evoked in Greek tragedy; a male Nemesis.

Origin of Alastor

1600-10; from Greek alástōr “avenging deity,” from álastos “unforgotten, unforgiven”

Examples for Alastor

The music of "alastor," indeed, is audible ever and again throughout "Pauline."

He played Prof. alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody in three of the films.

The following quotation is a fair specimen of the blank verse of alastor.

The whole poem of 'alastor' was to be foreseen in that fainting.

I believe it is nearly as beautiful as the cavern in Shelley's 'alastor.'

This was followed by alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude, in 1816.

There is a quotation, or rather a misquotation, from it in the Preface to alastor.

The first longer poem of Shelley which can be called mature was alastor.

alastor: Ay, ay, but he has a long time been talking to the deaf.

It is certain that Keats read and was impressed by alastor: doubtless he also read the Hymn.

Word Value for Alastor
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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