Definitions for arris

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arris ar·ris

Spelling: [ar-is]

IPA: /ˈær ɪs/

Arris 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 45 anagrams from letters in arris (airrs).

Definitions for arris

noun

1. a sharp ridge, as between adjoining channels of a Doric column.
2. the line, ridge, or hip formed by the meeting of two surfaces at an exterior angle.

Origin of arris

1670-80; Middle French areste; see arête

Examples for arris

Old 'arris is either dead and buried, or gorn away, or somethin'.

She would come to the front of the stage and say confidentially to the audience, "Do you know Lizzie 'arris?"

A curved furrow, immediately adjoining its repetition, and separated from it only by an arris, as in the Doric column.