Definitions for ansa

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ansa an·sa

Spelling: [an-suh]

IPA: /ˈæn sə/

Ansa is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in ansa (aans).

Definitions for ansa

noun

1. Archaeology. a looped handle, especially of a vase.
2. Astronomy. either of the apparent extremities of the rings of Saturn or of other planets, especially when viewed from the earth or from spacecraft under certain conditions, when they look like two handles.

Origin of ansa

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1655-65

Examples for ansa

One ansa, indeed, is sometimes visible without the other, and most commonly it is the Eastern one that is missing.

“We do not want any Islamic museum in Venice,” Massimo Bitonci, a senator for the Northern League told ansa news agency.

“My husband and I were in the water for more than four hours,” she said, according to ansa news service.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told Italian news agency ansa that he had no idea whether the Vatican was tapped.

Desiderius and his wife ansa endowed this convent with landed property which spread over all the Lombard kingdom.