Definitions for Cedars

• Definition
• Anagrams (167)

Cedars ce·dar

Spelling: [see-der]

IPA: /ˈsi dər/

Cedars is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in Cedars (acders).

Definitions for Cedars

noun

1. any of several Old World, coniferous trees of the genus Cedrus, having wide, spreading branches. Compare cedar of Lebanon.
2. any of various junipers, as the red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of the cypress family, having reddish-brown bark and dark-blue, berrylike fruit.
3. any of various other coniferous trees. Compare incense cedar, white cedar.
4. any of several trees belonging to the genus Cedrela, of the mahogany family, as the Spanish cedar.
5. Also called cedarwood. the fragrant wood of any of these trees, used in furniture and as a moth repellent.

Origin of Cedars

before 1000; Middle English cedir, Old English ceder Latin cedrus Greek kédros; replacing Middle English cedre Old French Latin, as above

Examples for Cedars

She was conveyed to the palace in a cedar carriage, carefully screened from observation.

Without overshadowing his talented counterparts, cedar commands the stage with a meticulous mix of stoicism and candor.

The memory came more quickly for her friend, Jan Mundt, formerly of cedar Falls and now of Florida.

Until to-morrow night, then, blinded and bewildered with holly and cedar let me be!

I have seen a raft built of cedar logs and cedar bark ropes in an hour.

As we entered the shed chamber the lid of the cedar trunk rose.

It also remains unclear whether traditional practices such as aging tobacco in cedar or other woods might run afoul of the ban.

The night wind was balmy, and there was a fragrance of cedar in its breath.

Marianne Stewart of cedar Falls needed repeated prodding to recall that she had caucused for Santorum.

I was there at one of the first gigs by Julian Casablancas and the Voidz at SXSW, in cedar Street Courtyard.