Definitions for chars

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chars char

Spelling: [chahr]

IPA: /tʃɑr/

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

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in chars (achrs).

Definitions for chars

noun

1. a charred material or surface.
2. charcoal.
3. a superior carbon-rich fuel, a by-product of the conversion of coal into gaseous or liquid fuel.
4. any trout of the genus Salvelinus (or Cristovomer), especially the Arctic char.
5. a charwoman.
6. a task, especially a household chore.
7. chars, odd jobs, especially of housework, for which one is paid by the hour or day.
8. tea.
9. René [ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1907–1988, French poet.

verb (used with object)

1. to burn or reduce to charcoal:
2. to burn slightly; scorch:
3. to do (housework, odd jobs, or chores); clean or repair.

verb (used without object)

1. to become charred.
2. to work at housecleaning by the day or hour; hire oneself out to do odd jobs.

Origin of chars

1670-80; apparently extracted from charcoal; see chark

Examples for chars

Rollo was sitting in a char à banc when he said this, at the door of the hotel.

They could have a char once a fortnight for a scrub-down and the heavy washing.

To scorch and to singe are superficial, and to char usually so.

"Father tells me you have been having your own troubles, little char," he wrote.

The char from the top of the wick must be brushed off from time to time.

The char was not much better than a handsomely-painted cart.

But a Dolly Varden isn't a trout at all, it's really a char.

In an hour I had landed twelve trout and char, weighing 10½ lb.

It is almost identical with the European char (Salvelinus alpinus).

In this light they were considered by the parliament in the 25 char.