Definitions for bantams

bantams ban·tam

Spelling: [ban-tuh m]
IPA: /ˈbæn təm/

Bantams is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in bantams (aabmnst).

Definitions for bantams

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 bantams

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

Examples for bantams

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

Smith was eying the bantam critically when Dicksie rejoined him.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for bantams
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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