Definitions for destination

destination des·ti·na·tion

Spelling: [des-tuh-ney-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌdɛs təˈneɪ ʃən/

Destination is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 765 anagrams from letters in destination (adeiinnostt).

Definitions for destination

noun

  1. the place to which a person or thing travels or is sent:
  2. the purpose for which something is destined.

adjective

  1. noting an attraction or event that people are willing to travel a long distance to get to, either because it is very good or distinctive or because it is located in a popular and interesting place:

Origin of destination

1350-1400; Middle English Latin dēstinātiōn- (stem of dēstinātiō) an establishing, purpose, equivalent to dēstināt(us) (past participle of dēstināre; see destine)

Examples for destination

What was once just a stopover point quickly became a destination in its own right.

The letter, hastening to its destination, had contained the stolen money.

There is not more than one chance in a hundred of its reaching its destination.

Her destination was Corcoran, California, where Charles Manson is spending his remaining days in a state prison.

By the time we reached our destination the storm had become truly awful.

There we were, and there perforce we must remain till we reached our destination.

Pan American Airways thought enough of the destination to finance one of the hotel-casinos just off the Malecon.

You will have to forgive him for labeling more than one destination in such a superlative fashion.

He seemed to get a little turned around on the way but managed to reach what might have been presumed to be his destination.

If he walked fast he might yet overtake his friends ere they reached their destination.

Word Value for destination
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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