Definitions for credentials

credentials cre·den·tial

Spelling: [kri-den-shuh l]
IPA: /krɪˈdɛn ʃəl/

Credentials is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 2139 anagrams from letters in credentials (acdeeilnrst).

Definitions for credentials

noun

  1. Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form:
  2. anything that provides the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc.
  3. Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form:
  4. anything that provides the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc.

adjective

  1. providing the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc.
  2. providing the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc.

verb (used with object)

  1. to grant credentials to, especially educational and professional ones:
  2. to grant credentials to, especially educational and professional ones:

Origin of credentials

1425-75; late Middle English credencial Medieval Latin crēdenti(a) credence + -al1

Examples for credentials

I have every credential to prove my extraordinary announcement.

Students with more experience do better--but need the credential less.

The only credential he could produce was the testimony of his whole life.

Somebody said he was in the hall a moment ago, on a Ripton credential.

At one point in time, there was a code of conduct: creed and credential.

Now, of course, I don't think that education is only a credential.

Especially to the extent that this helps drive a lot of additional spending on said credential.

But the youth had not undertaken to deliver that credential, and he never did so.

The credential of having a lot of Washington, D.C., experience is not “a calling card” among voters any more.

The unuttered utterance is his credential, to be restored to the Bestower of it.

Is there anything Zarif could do to forfeit his credentials as a “moderate”?

I considered whether to enter the fray, since my credentials were in order, so to speak.

If you think I am lying, young gentlemen, I will show you my credentials.

And it has become a go-to stop for Republican politicians eager to shore up their Christian credentials.

"I think that first, perhaps, I should look at your credentials," Vard suggested.

Cruz also took pains to build up his credentials on foreign policy, appearing at anti-CPAC event sponsored by Frank Gaffney.

The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold.

Let us first have our dinner, M'Kinlay, and then I'll write your credentials.

First, his credentials: He did international mergers and acquisitions at Lazard, a financial and asset management firm.

He could show his credentials at a moment's notice with proud defiance.

Word Value for credentials
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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