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Basil bas·il

Spelling: [baz-uh l, bas-, bey-z Basil is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in Basil (abils).

Definitions for Basil

noun

1. any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
2. Saint. Also, Basilius. ("the Great") a.d. 329?–379, bishop of Caesarea in Asia Minor (brother of Saint Gregory of Nyssa).
3. a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “royal.”.

Origin of Basil

1400-50; late Middle English basile Middle French Late Latin basilicum Greek basilikón, neuter of basilikós royal. See basilic

Examples for Basil

basil Kendall was well educated, and had done what he could to educate his children.

The complaint is someone was rude to me, my salad was incomplete, they left the basil off my TBM.

In the sixth episode of the BBC comedy series, basil Fawlty is desperately trying to serve dinner to a party of German guests.

Whiter Teeth—Make a paste by crushing some basil leaves with the zest of an orange.

And like David Paterson, another indulged child of another New York political powerhouse, basil Paterson.

But basil the son of Richard heeds him not, and his eyes laugh still.

basil returned to Australia, but disappears from view until 1840.

Up goes the right of basil the son of Richard, and behold while all cry “a parry!”

There is, in Harlem, a “gang of four”: Percy Sutton, basil Paterson, Charlie Rangel, and Dinkins.

Fischer, basil Jones and my son have been killed in the War.