Definitions for conscript

conscript con·script

Spelling: [verb kuh n-skript; noun, adjective Conscript is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 414 anagrams from letters in conscript (ccinoprst).

Definitions for conscript

noun

  1. a recruit obtained by conscription.

adjective

  1. enrolled or formed by conscription; drafted:

verb (used with object)

  1. to draft for military or naval service.
  2. to compel into service.

Origin of conscript

1525-35; Latin conscrīptus, past participle of conscrībere to conscribe; see con-, script

Examples for conscript

They had gone for a conscript; they came away with a volunteer.

It was 1951 and I was a conscript serving in the Royal Air Force.

By mid-to-late evening, there was overwhelming evidence that Russia was using a mix of mercenary and conscript forces.

Each mitayo, or conscript, received nominally two shillings a day.

The answer, it seems, has to do with the plan to conscript haredi (ultra-Orthodox) youth into the Israeli army.

Tribes killing their neighbors and burning their fields were now depriving the Romans of soldiers to conscript and produce to tax.

Certainly, Monsieur, but only a conscript; it is not likely that you should have seen me before.

He—Colonel L.—calls it recruiting to conscript all he can lay hands on.

But, conscript Fathers, Senators, there is but one course to be pursued.

Well, then, conscript them, and they'll be all of a better pattern.

Word Value for conscript
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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