Definitions for carrels

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carrels car·rel

Spelling: [kar-uh l]

IPA: /ˈkær əl/

Carrels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in carrels (acelrrs).

Definitions for carrels

noun

1. Also called cubicle, stall. a small recess or enclosed area in a library stack, designed for individual study or reading.
2. a table or desk with three sides extending above the writing surface to serve as partitions, designed for individual study, as in a library.
3. Alexis [uh-lek-sis;; French a-lek-see] /əˈlɛk sɪs;; French a lɛkˈsi/ (Show IPA), 1873–1944, French surgeon and biologist, in U.S. 1905–39: Nobel Prize 1912.

Origin of carrels

1585-95; variant spelling of carol enclosure

Examples for carrels

You shall have the same salary as Mr. carrel Quire paid—or forgot to pay.

Sir, replied carrel, I can never regard a duel as a bonne fortune.

Girardin asked carrel to wait until he also could have a friend present.

It was apparently a complicated case, for carrel had been remanded and bail refused.

She used to sit at carrel's, and during the pose she would sing.

carrel placed a chair for her before the table and resumed his own.

I'm personal secretary to Mr. carrel Quire, and it's really his car.

carrel opened the door for her and ceremoniously bowed her out.

carrel made the fire, boiled the water, and prepared our coffee.

I will engage you to sing and dance,' said carrel, his dark eyes sparkling.