Definitions for bel-esprit

bel-esprit bel-es·prit

Spelling: [bel-es-pree]
IPA: /bɛl ɛsˈpri/

Bel-Esprit is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 524 anagrams from letters in bel-esprit (-beeilprst).

Definitions for bel-esprit

noun

  1. a person of great wit or intellect.

Examples for bel-esprit

Madame de Pompadour joked my companion about her 'bel-esprit', but sometimes she reposed confidence in her.

What we commonly understand in French by "esprit," "bel-esprit," "trait d'esprit," are—ingenious thoughts.

And that father of hers, with his doubtful past and his cruelties, and the bel-esprit her mother, with her doubtful reputation.

He was a statesman, a bel-esprit, a virtuoso, and a connoisseur.

There was the blue-stocking lady, a mature belle and bel-esprit.

One evening he took me with him to a literary renion, at which every bel-esprit of the capital was to be present.

Word Value for bel-esprit
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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