Definitions for Camel

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Camel cam·el

Spelling: [kam-uh l]

IPA: /ˈkæm əl/

Camel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in Camel (acelm).

Definitions for Camel

noun

1. either of two large, humped, ruminant quadrupeds of the genus Camelus, of the Old World. Compare Bactrian camel, dromedary.
2. a color ranging from yellowish tan to yellowish brown.
3. Also called camel spin. Skating. a spin done in an arabesque position.
4. Nautical. Also called pontoon. a float for lifting a deeply laden vessel sufficiently to allow it to cross an area of shallow water. a float serving as a fender between a vessel and a pier or the like. caisson (def 3a).

Origin of Camel

before 950; Middle English, Old English Latin camēlus Greek kámēlos Semitic; compare Hebrew gāmāl

Examples for Camel

In short: It is so convenient that it makes a taxi seem about as high-tech as a camel.

There's nothing like sitting still after a windy day on camel back.

Joe camel: For about a decade beginning in 1987, camel started to market its products using a mascot called “Old Joe.”

Joe would often appear looking suave or cool in various brightly colored situations - as cool as a man with a camel face can look.

Behold, your friend the kaimkam is gloomy and impassive as a camel; what can you do?

There are two kinds of camels—the camel proper and the camel improper.

There was something rather theatrical—surreal even—about walking into camp accompanied by a camel caravan later that evening.

I hadn't been on a camel since I was four, if then, so it was useless to follow.

Later, I fell asleep to the sound of Lhoucine gently coaxing his camel and faint ululating from a distant stone cottage.

And he sold his camel yesterday and bought a bicycle instead.