Definitions for davenports

davenports dav·en·port

Spelling: [dav-uh n-pawrt, -pohrt]
IPA: /ˈdæv ənˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt/

Davenports is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1224 anagrams from letters in davenports (adenoprstv).

Definitions for davenports

noun

  1. a large sofa, often one convertible into a bed.
  2. Chiefly British. a small writing desk.
  3. John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
  4. a city in E Iowa, on the Mississippi River.

Origin of davenports

First recorded in 1850-55; the desk is said to be named after a Captain Davenport who first commissioned it

Examples for davenports

But if davenport's hands might go unchanged, he decided that his handwriting should not.

As you ain't davenport, why, of course, you ain't entitled to it.

"That wasn't offered me; I begged for it," said davenport, quietly.

“You can host a sit-down diner for 140, and the house can accommodate 700 people at a party,” davenport says proudly.

"You perceive I have the musty look of a solitary," said davenport.

Since getting out, in May, davenport says he has been attempting to pick up what he calls normal life.

davenport, who never had a thousand dollars of his own at a time!

Mrs. davenport has been married 24 years, so this is an issue of marital privacy.

Five minutes later, wearing a dress shirt and jeans, davenport appears.

Why, I wonder, is davenport so obsessed with defining himself as part of the British aristocracy?

Word Value for davenports
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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