Definitions for devoirs

devoirs de·voir

Spelling: [duh-vwahr, dev-wahr; French d Devoirs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in devoirs (deiorsv).

Definitions for devoirs

noun

  1. an act of civility or respect.
  2. devoirs, respects or compliments.
  3. something for which a person is responsible; duty.

Origin of devoirs

1250-1300; Middle English devoir, deveir, dever Old French devoir (Anglo-French deveir, dever) Latin dēbēre to owe; cf. debt

Examples for devoirs

Nature is the last goddess to whom my devoirs shall be paid.

Then he bent over the Countess's hand, and with a passing compliment, made his devoirs and left her.

It was my intention to pay my devoirs at Versailles tomorrow.

No, no, it was not thus your own brave countrymen understood their 'devoirs.'

I tarried here long enough to smoke one cigarette and pay my devoirs to the noble profession of second-hand bookselling.

Think you, Madame, that I could remain long in Paris and fail to pay you my devoirs?

How could any bow pay its devoirs distinctly to thirty-five strings?

Few and formal then were the lover's devoirs expected or permitted.

You will grant that it is in character for a Senator to pay his devoirs to a sultana.

Zulka, having made his devoirs to the sovereign, now approached his friend.

Word Value for devoirs
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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