Definitions for context

context con·text

Spelling: [kon-tekst]
IPA: /ˈkɒn tɛkst/

Context is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in context (cenottx).

Definitions for context

noun

  1. the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect:
  2. the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.
  3. Mycology. the fleshy fibrous body of the pileus in mushrooms.

Origin of context

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin contextus a joining together, scheme, structure, equivalent to contex(ere) to join by weaving (con- con- + texere to plait, weave)

Examples for context

In this context some discussions with Antiphon the sophist deserve record.

Just wanted to place it in the context of slates needing picture choices that throw off revenue to make the numbers work.

Morally, Boies is right, if one can use the word “morally” in the context of anyone in Hollywood.

But the context showed that the writer was in deadly earnest.

This is the rule of context, a fundamental rule of interpretation.

Parliament, however, altered the law, but overlooked the context.

In that context, Sotto Sotto was one of the all-out survivors.

Clearly the liberation of Gross took place in the context of what might be called a “grand bargain.”

They were in reply to remarks of his own, and owed all their significance to the context.

Prevalence depends on context, and sometimes unique advantages outweigh the genetic costs.

Word Value for context
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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