Definitions for Bantam

Bantam ban·tam

Spelling: [ban-tuh m]
IPA: /ˈbæn təm/

Bantam is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in Bantam (aabmnt).

Definitions for Bantam

noun

  1. (often initial capital letter) a chicken of any of several varieties or breeds characterized by very small size.
  2. a small and feisty or quarrelsome person.
  3. a village in W Java, in S Indonesia: first Dutch settlement in the East Indies.

adjective

  1. diminutive; tiny:

Origin of Bantam

1740-50; apparently after Bantam, through which such chickens may have been imported to Europe

Examples for Bantam

It clattered unheeded to the floor as the bantam dived for Hilary and Joan.

bantam [the eventual paperback publisher] sold six million copies in 20 years.

bantam calls and says, “We must publish Juvenal [original title].”

It was to be the bantam (carried by Natt and owned by his master) against all comers.

By all means (returnd the wealthy King of bantam;) I had so designd before.

Reprinted by arrangement with bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.

In another study, “one man reported that he felt compelled to incubate and help hatch out a clutch of bantam chickens.”

Smith was eying the bantam critically when Dicksie rejoined him.

Lonard thinks ha-ha-ha and tells bantam that the rights have reverted to him, which they have.

Babbitt, looking like a triumphantly vicious bantam rooster, crowed on.

Word Value for Bantam
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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