Definitions for bedlam

bedlam bed·lam

Spelling: [bed-luh m]
IPA: /ˈbɛd ləm/

Bedlam is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in bedlam (abdelm).

Definitions for bedlam

noun

  1. a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
  2. Archaic. an insane asylum or madhouse.

Origin of bedlam

a popular name for the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem in London, which served as a lunatic asylum from circa 1400; compare Middle English Bedleem, Bethleem, Old English Betleem Examples for bedlam

It was said that they meant to throw the gates of bedlam open, and let all the madmen loose.

She swam away in the bedlam of shrieks and clattering of dishes and knives.

Casa Bruja is a diamond in the rough, a refuge among all this bedlam.

Say, I wonder if there's any one out in this bedlam of a night?

No Mortal out of the depths of bedlam but lives by Formulas.

So, day after day, he riddles the bedlam about him with his broadsides, in the hourly hope of victory.

You cannot get me into bedlam, all-powerful, all-artful as you are.

I persist—an unwelcome visitor, a bargain-hunting tourist in bedlam.

Cry after cry, and answering cries, were turning the silence into a bedlam.

But what are we to say to a man who compares Dante to 'a Methodist parson in bedlam'?

Word Value for bedlam
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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