Definitions for Ashes

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Ashes ash

Spelling: [ash]

IPA: /æʃ/

Ashes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in Ashes (aehss).

Definitions for Ashes

noun

1. the powdery residue of matter that remains after burning.
2. Also called volcanic ash. Geology. finely pulverized lava thrown out by a volcano in eruption.
3. a light, silvery-gray color.
4. ashes. deathlike grayness; extreme pallor suggestive of death. ruins, especially the residue of something destroyed; remains; vestiges: mortal remains, especially the physical or corporeal body as liable to decay. anything, as an act, gesture, speech, or feeling, that is symbolic of penance, regret, remorse, or the like.
5. any of various trees of the genus Fraxinus, of the olive family, especially F. excelsior, of Europe and Asia, or F. americana (white ash) of North America, having opposite, pinnate leaves and purplish flowers in small clusters.
6. the tough, straight-grained wood of any of these trees, valued as timber.
7. Also, æsc. the symbol “æ.”.

Origin of Ashes

before 950; Middle English a(i)sshe, Old English asce, æsce; cognate with Frisian esk, Dutch asch, Old Norse, Old High German aska (German Asche), Gothic azgo Germanic *askōn- (with Goth unex

Examples for Ashes

“At one point they were going to perform a burial ceremony with the ashes,” he says.

In the not-so-distant future, an independent country, which belongs to Kurds, will rise from these wants, pains, fire and ashes.

My poor boy, he who is sitting in sackcloth and ashes needs no jester.

ashes & Fire, a pleasant, folky, water-treading effort, followed in 2011.

What mattered it that the honey of it was as ashes in her mouth?

He flicked the ashes from his cigar, nursing his knee with the other hand.

The Oberhausen aquarium erected a memorial of the psychic octopus with a golden urn containing his ashes.

I carried the rod below, to dry it, and covered the lower part with ashes.

The Old Map knocked the ashes out of his pipe and went in to look at him.

And Operation Paperclip, born of the ashes of World War II, was the inciting incident in this hall of mirrors.